Repudiation

(noun.) the exposure of falseness or pretensions; 'the debunking of religion has been too successful'.

(noun.) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); 'the repudiation of the debt by the city'.

(noun.) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; 'Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated'.

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• We must not swing across from the repudiation of the extravagant pretensions of the faithful to an equally extravagant condemnation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This other, this state of constant unfailing repudiation, was a strain, a suffering also. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• His lips trembled and stood apart, as he followed this repudiation of himself; and limitation of her words to her brother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The sentence in which that repudiation was expressed was Washington's injunction to avoid entangling alliances. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was a complete recognition of the unalienable sovereignty of states, and a repudiation of the idea of an over-riding commonweal of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The late John Harmon might have thought it rather a contemptuous and lofty word of repudiation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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