- 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
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
But, to pass by all that, would not a man think you were assured there is no repugnancy between the received notions of Materialists and the inspired writings?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
