- 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
To make out this, it is necessary that you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of, which is a manifest repugnancy.
From Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall
But where there are no ideas, there no repugnancy can be demonstrated between ideas?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
In the next place, the reverend brother makes short work of my five arguments to prove the repugnancy of his doctrine to the solemn league and covenant.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
