- 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
If we be pleased in this sense to take having and not having of a wife, we shall indeed find no repugnancy nor contradiction in the terms at all.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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 Rashdall, Hastings
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
