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English
Etymology
Blend of refute + repudiate. Often associated with Sarah Palin's infamous 2010 lapsus linguae. A few rare attestations predate the 1970s. Since then the word has been uncommon although not rare, but many written occurrences of the word focus on prescriptively refudiating its use; it remains nonstandard.
Verb
refudiate (third-person singular simple present refudiates, present participle refudiating, simple past and past participle refudiated)
- (nonstandard) To repudiate, to oppose.
- 1951, Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence, 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85:
- Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue some examples "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating).
1980 January 23, Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use, page 1:[…] their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance".
1984, John Sladek, The Lunatics of Terra, Wildside Press LLC, published 2005, →ISBN, page 77:‘Captain Blip? Never,’ he said, without ceasing to calculate. ‘I refudiate that.’
‘You what?’ Jane felt suddenly cold all over. ‘There’s no such word, Denny.’
1987, Mahabalagiri N. Hegde, Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders: Principles and Strategies, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 317:The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate.
- 1988 March 3, James Bilbray, quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9:
- I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying.
- a. 2008, Alan Moore writes in the subsection, Dr. Manhattan: Super-powers and the Superpowers, pg. iii, of Chapter IV, in Watchmen, "The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Manhattan."
- a. 2010, David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times, 2010 June 27, page BU1:
- Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context.
- 2010, Matt DeLong quoting Sarah Palin, “'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post, 2010 July 20:
- Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "refudiate," of course, is not a word.