repudiation

Examples of repudiated

repudiated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Silently, they repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer ordered by theology.
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.
Some investors had repudiated their obligations on the grounds that they were dealing with brokers acting as 'jobbers' or principals, not acting as agents.
Although such ideas have since been repudiated within archaeology, in disciplines further afield, the damage was done.
Soames writes that the proponents of logical positivism repudiated it.
He ' alternated or modulated between them depending on the immediate theological and cultural context of his writing, but never repudiated either one ' (p. 11).
Any concept of a ' ' real ' ' centred self is repudiated; the self is a significant absence approximated through simulations, the constructions of our spectators.
Apparently accepted with little discussion, this was a significant change and one not repudiated prior to the outbreak of war.
Radical tolerationists were not, therefore, premature advocates of the permissive society, and they rarely repudiated the puritan campaign for the reformation of manners.
Many members (including me) felt repudiated and soon resigned.
However, the foreign debt will never be repudiated if the interest rate, and concern for future generations, are sufficiently small and large, respectively.
Seldom have comfort and sensuality been so keenly repudiated in the name of realism.
Uses of their theory must not presuppose the corner-pub meaning of the term, which economists claim to have repudiated.
Feminist musicians are both expected to speak for all women and asked to claim that they do in order that they can be repudiated.
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