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
The perception of the connexion or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas.
From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by Locke, John
But you suspect some peculiar repugnancy, though you know not where it lies.
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
If all possible sense which can be put on the first chapter of Genesis may be conceived as consistently with my principles as any other, then it has no peculiar repugnancy with them.
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
