different between confute vs repudiate

English

Etymology

From Middle French confuter, from Latin conf?t?re.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?nfju?t/

Verb

confute (third-person singular simple present confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle confuted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

Derived terms

• confutable
• inconfutable

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin repudi?tus, from repudi? (“I cast off, reject”), from repudium (“divorce”), 1540s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /???pju?.di.e?t/, /???pju?.di.e?t/

Verb

repudiate (third-person singular simple present repudiates, present participle repudiating, simple past and past participle repudiated)

1. (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.

   Synonyms: deny, contradict, gainsay

2. (transitive) To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.

   Synonyms: disavow, forswear; see also Thesaurus:repudiate

3. (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).

   Synonym: welsh

4. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

Quotations

Joyce Carol Oates: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it"

Eldridge Cleaver: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."

1848: '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXIV.

"The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating." T. S. Eliot, Andrew Marvell.

"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --bell hooks

Translations

Further reading

• repudiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repudiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repudiate at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Latin

Verb

repudi?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of repudi?