Definition of Repudiative

1. Adjective. Rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning. "A veto is a repudiative act"

Similar to: Rejective
Derivative terms: Repudiate, Repudiate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repudiative

republish
republished
republisher
republishers
republishes
republishing
repudiable
repudiate
repudiated
repudiates
repudiating
repudiation
repudiationist
repudiationists
repudiations
repudiative (current term)
repudiator
repudiators
repudiatory
repugn
repugnable
repugnance
repugnances
repugnancies
repugnancy
repugnant
repugnantly
repugnate
repugnatorial
repugnaunce

Literary usage of Repudiative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"Here is a cunning sorrow needs no apology, assumption in a repudiative form. Can that be worthies?, would his ad- " №1 pictae de M dice« verm »let" ..."

2. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"... and on this issue a repudiative legislature was elected and endorsed the executive. Florida also sold territorial bonds for investment in a bank, ..."

3. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"... and on this issue a repudiative legislature was elected and endorsed the executive. Florida also sold territorial bonds for investment in a bank, ..."

4. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"... and on this issue a repudiative legislature was elected and endorsed the executive. Florida also sold territorial bonds for investment in a bank, ..."

5. Financial History of the United States by Davis Rich Dewey (1902)
"... and on this issue a repudiative legislature was elected and endorsed the executive. Florida also sold territorial bonds for investment in a bank, ..."

6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"... "The Dramatic Art of Menander," in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; AR Anderson, "repudiative Questions in Greek Drama, and in Plautus and ..."

7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... and in fact, our state of society in America, with its headlong rail-road action, its frequent reverses, its repudiative tendencies, ..."

8. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... and in fact, our state of society in America, with its headlong rail-road action, its frequent reverses, its repudiative tendencies, ..."

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