1. Actually, a rising superpower was involved in all those debt repudiations:

2. Synonyms for Abnegations include renunciation, surrenders, abandonment, refusal, rejection, repudiations, relinquishments, abjuration, eschewals and abdication

3. Synonyms for Abrogations include repudiations, revocation, abolitions, annulment, invalidation, nullification, overridings, quashings, repeals and retraction

4. 1852, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, The Hand of God in the Great Man (page 23) Let us bless him as we see acts of friends or foes to him and his children, proclamations and repudiations, orders and Countermandings, motions of loyalty and