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repudiation (n.)
1540s, "divorce" (of a woman by a man), from Latin
repudiationem
(nominative
repudiatio
) "a rejection, refusal," noun of action from past participle stem of
repudiare
(see
repudiate
). Meaning "action of disowning" is from 1840s.