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Example sentences for "repudiating"

Lexicographically close words:
republished; republishing; repudiate; repudiated; repudiates; repudiation; repugn; repugnance; repugnances; repugnancy
  1. The papacy, repudiating science as absolutely incompatible with its pretensions, had in later years addressed itself to the encouragement of art.

  2. The previous moment she had been all softness and regret, but now, at the sudden passion in his voice, something within her recoiled violently, repudiating the claim his love had made upon her.

  3. I took on a certain liability--years ago, and because it has turned out to be a much heavier liability than I anticipated gives me no excuse for repudiating it now.

  4. And Sara realized that in those few words he had revoked--repudiating all that he had claimed, all that he had given, the day before.

  5. You prate of stultifying yourself by taking the oath of nihilism, and repudiating your word to Alexander.

  6. Resolution Of National-American Woman Suffrage Association repudiating "The Woman's Bible," and Speech of Susan B.

  7. Had she done right in repudiating mankind?

  8. It was true that she should have told him of Sir Francis Geraldine; of her folly in accepting him and her courage in repudiating him.

  9. St. Paul lays weight on the latter view, without repudiating the former.

  10. We, who had all tested her and believed in her, were unanimous in repudiating the vile charges brought against her, and in begging the seance should proceed.

  11. Don't make their failure harder to bear by roughly repudiating all knowledge of them.

  12. Mr. Hamlin, representing the Committee on Foreign Relations, was careful not to put the United States in the attitude of repudiating the award.

  13. And aside from the issue of virtually repudiating the public debt, would the party now re-assert its hostile and revolutionary attitude towards the well-nigh completed work of Reconstruction?

  14. He also signed privately a paper repudiating Ormonde and the loyal Irish, and recalling the commissions granted to them.

  15. They supported him in repudiating the treaty of London (1359), which King John had signed in anxiety for his personal freedom, and voted money unconditionally for the continuation of the war.

  16. Dispensations from the observance of traditional rules were, however, during the early centuries exceedingly rare, and there are more instances of the popes repudiating than of their exercising the power to grant them.

  17. Thus, repudiating her in a night, he set forth in all the glory of a cleansed record and a full pocket, to hunt for pleasure.

  18. But so foreign were these things to Ivan's own simplicity of nature, that he ended by repudiating his first doubts of the boy before him who had borne so much.

  19. The Home Government were in two minds about repudiating the transaction.

  20. Kashta does not appear to have possessed sufficient energy to prevent the Delta and its nomes from repudiating the Ethiopian supremacy.

  21. A last remnant of respect for the traditional monarchy kept them from entirely repudiating the authority of Pharaoh.

  22. As I have said earlier in this chapter, neither interactionist nor parallelist has the intention of repudiating the experience of world and mind common to us all.

  23. We must not forget that neither parallelist nor interactionist ever dreams of repudiating our common experiences of the relations of mental phenomena and physical.

  24. This may appear strange, since Germany had taken the lead in repudiating the Carolingian Empire, and Henry the Fowler, who established the new German monarchy, was the reverse of an idealist.

  25. In short, all were guilty, not of repudiating Christianity, but of interpreting the Christian doctrine in a sense forbidden by authority.

  26. But an impatient outburst of the insurgents and a foolish attempt to seize Hull and Scarborough gave Henry an excuse for repudiating the concessions made in his name.

  27. He found a preposterous excuse for repudiating the treaty by which he was bound, by declaring that some details had been omitted in its formal ratification.

  28. Further, he is untrue to his position, repudiating it in his sermons and popular writings as far as possible, and replacing it by one morally more defensible.

  29. Thus the Church, by repudiating the destructive errors taught by Protestantism, preserved society from being debased by these fatalist doctrines.

  30. In repudiating religion, these same moderns are carrying ingratitude to great lengths; for at the very moment they insult her, they are profiting by her favors.

  31. She ventured to declare that she could place very little confidence in the professions of a man whose cruel inconstancy was capable of repudiating a faithful and affectionate wife.

  32. The emperor, treasuring this description by his wife in his own mind, considered with himself how he could espouse Justina, without repudiating Severa, who had borne him Gratian, whom he had created Augustus a short time before.

  33. Again, the idea of public questions, the idea of the common welfare, has come into being with the nineteenth century, and is quietly repudiating caste and giving to the community a solidarity and a feeling of solidarity unknown hitherto.

  34. Repudiating caste, idolatry, and transmigration, they are necessarily cut off from Hinduism.

  35. Repudiating all those current customs, of course the [=A]ryas have parted company with the orthodox Hindus.

  36. A good Mussulman seems to take pride in repudiating the European notion that the will of God can be eluded by eluding the touch of a sleeve.

  37. It differs from the United Presbyterian Church in restricting its opposition to the abuse of patronage, without repudiating right off every sort of state aid and endowment as unevangelical.

  38. The whole East is unanimous in most distinctly repudiating all predestinational wilfulness in God.

  39. He vigorously contended against the church doctrine of atonement and justification, repudiating the idea of vicarious penal suffering, and broke through all church order by allowing the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to be dispensed by laymen.

  40. They were equally decided in denying all merit in fasting and observing the feast days, in repudiating the doctrine of purgatory, and many of the ceremonies of the Romish church.

  41. Lord’s Supper, repudiating the idea of a sacrifice in the mass, and insisting on communion in both kinds.

  42. On his repudiating the Augsburg Confession, the church boards refused to recognise him, and he went hither and thither preaching a Christian communism.

  43. There was a large party in favor, not only of passing the interest on the State debt, which fell due in the coming January and July, but of repudiating the whole debt outright.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repudiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.