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Word For The Day, Monday, 1/21/02, Third Annual Day of Repudiation
The Verbivores | 1/21/02 | Teacher

Posted on 01/21/2002 6:01:33 AM PST by RikaStrom

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....


repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun

1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545



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To: one_particular_harbour
Probably helpful, decent and kind to pro se litigants.

Kinda like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and chaste nurses, kind, helpful appellate attorneys are mythical characters.

341 posted on 01/21/2002 1:31:24 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
she'll get a substantial evidence review which is to say the court will pretend she made all possible arguments.
342 posted on 01/21/2002 1:31:31 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Bwhahahaah. I'm glad I'm driving.
343 posted on 01/21/2002 1:32:22 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: one_particular_harbour
Probably helpful, decent and kind to pro se litigants

Not hardly....

344 posted on 01/21/2002 1:32:32 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Gabz; One_Particular_Harbour
oooohhhh, that sounds inappropriate....

Is that blood I smell in the water? The sharks are starting to circle.

345 posted on 01/21/2002 1:33:15 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: maxwell
if i am not mistaken, it is the weekend that has 1/31-2/1 in it!
346 posted on 01/21/2002 1:33:15 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: one_particular_harbour; xsmommy
You, my dear, are ethical in ways I'm not.

I'll remember that the next time I assistance in the court room!!!!

Sorry, XS!!!

348 posted on 01/21/2002 1:33:41 PM PST by Gabz
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To: CholeraJoe
chaste nurses

I am quite sure you can speak to this....

349 posted on 01/21/2002 1:34:01 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
So is that next weekend?
350 posted on 01/21/2002 1:34:18 PM PST by maxwell
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To: maxwell
It's the Thursday and Friday before the Super Bowl.
351 posted on 01/21/2002 1:35:04 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: maxwell
this is monday, it is NOT this coming thursday and friday, but instead, NEXT thursday and friday. ARE WE CLEAR NOW MAXWELL?? : )
352 posted on 01/21/2002 1:35:34 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
so you were on the PERV detail? fitting....

You would have to say that.....................

353 posted on 01/21/2002 1:36:10 PM PST by Gabz
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To: CholeraJoe;one_particular_harbour;gabz
i don't know, OPH, does it sound kosher to you, if gabz doesn't get the job because of childcare issues? that smells funny to me.
354 posted on 01/21/2002 1:36:53 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: Scruffdog
Debemos negar todo jesse jackson decimos.

Repudio Senor Jackson.... Si

355 posted on 01/21/2002 1:36:56 PM PST by NeoCaveman
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To: xsmommy
Exxactly my point. I may not be an attorney - but I'm not stupid!!!!
356 posted on 01/21/2002 1:37:37 PM PST by Gabz
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To: dubyaismypresident;scruffdog
ay, caramba, scruffdog ha encontrado el senor bilingue en este clase, a quien dirigir su comento...
357 posted on 01/21/2002 1:38:25 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Smells bad to me and I'm just an employer not a lawyer.
358 posted on 01/21/2002 1:38:44 PM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: dubyaismypresident
HheHeHeheheheheheheh!!!!!!!!

Ve know vays!!!!!!!!!

359 posted on 01/21/2002 1:38:50 PM PST by Gabz
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To: CholeraJoe
xshub is both a lawyer and an employer and he will not ask ANY personal questions, not even marital status, let alone child care arrangements.
360 posted on 01/21/2002 1:39:55 PM PST by xsmommy
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