I hadn't thought of doing this until I was about 2/3 of the way through this novel, but it's still a good exercise. Faulkner has his own particular bag of words he continues to dig into, so I'm doubtful starting this earlier in my reading would have made a huge difference. Still--I wonder!
Page numbers (if they are listed at all) are from the most recent paperback edition (Vintage).
refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
"...the umbilicus of America joining the soil which was his home to the parent which these generations ago it had failed in blood to repudiate" (148). Faulkner loves "repudate" and uses it in his Faulkneresque way often with wild abandon.
repudiate
