- a variation of repugnance.
repugnancy
Example Sentences
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The report gave few details but suggested that she had made unflattering secret videos during humanitarian trips "out of inveterate repugnancy" toward Pyongyang.
From US News • Apr. 8, 2015
It doesn’t stand to reason that parents would think the “obvious health benefits” don’t outweigh the ethical repugnancy of permanently altering a child’s genitals for life?
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010
And is not this a direct repugnancy, and altogether inconceivable?
From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, George
If this reasoning were adopted, there would be an equal repugnancy in the terms of the contract, whether the nature of the risk were written in the policy or fixed by previous description.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
You tell me indeed of a repugnancy between the Mosaic history and Immaterialism: but you know not where it lies.
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
