Repudiation

(-pu-de-a's hun.) (Law.) The renouncing or abandoning of a right to, or responsibility for, any particular thing; as, the repudiation by a State of its money obligations. Repulse' Bay, in Brit. N. America, is an inlet of Welcome Gulf, on the S. coast of Melville Peninsula; N. Lat. 66º, W. Lon. 86°. [s. 763]