Instead, the prequels have to be somehow formally accepted as part of the "Star Wars" story and artistically repudiated at the same time.
So what we now have is a Democratic party that has been repudiated at the polls, headed by a Democratic National Committee that has become irrelevant at best, run part-time by a series of insider politicians.
Though evangelical Christian teachings repudiated same-sex orientation at the time, he chose instead to jettison the biblical verses that spoke negatively of homosexuality.
During the depression of the 1840s, nine states, or nearly a third of the 28 existing at the time, repudiated their debts in some form.
"By the time Barack Obama lands in Chicago, we will have repudiated at least 40 percent of his government," Mr Gingrich said, referring to the city a defeated Mr. Obama would most likely return to after leaving the White House.
So much will be made of the fact her decision was repudiated, at least by her opponents.
When Bill Bradley, United States senator at the time, refused to repudiate Florio tax increases, saying that state financial policy shouldn't concern a member of Congress, his tone-deafness almost led to his defeat by a political newcomer named Christine Todd Whitman.
His aim, as he put it at the time, was to publicly repudiate what he called "the whole rigmarole of college admissions and the failure to foreground the curriculum and learning".
In the process, the book is, locally, a refutation of feminist critics who, at the time of the film's release, repudiated it on the grounds of the protagonist's apparent passivity in the face of masculine authority.
France's newly elected president, François Hollande, said last year in a campaign speech that France would "repudiate" the "toxic air" of Françafrique, which Nicolas Sarkozy, the president at the time, had said he would also do.
