repudiation

See also: répudiation

English edit

From Latin repudiātiōnem, equivalent to repudiate +‎ -ion.

repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural repudiations)

The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
The young man's repudiation of the church's doctrines caused a conflict with his religious parents.
- 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
  Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

refusing