(n) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid, Syn. renunciation, Example:Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated
n. [ Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio. ] The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]