- a variation of repugnance.
repugnancy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
For the assertion carries in it a repugnancy to the standing rules of reason; forasmuch as the decayed stock of dry nourishment seems more naturally to call for its proper supplies.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
And is not this a direct repugnancy, and altogether inconceivable?
From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley
The opposite view claims our assent to two incongruous and apparently contradictory propositions, between which there is not only no agreement, but an evident repugnancy.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
