- 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 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
On the other part, in opposition and repugnancy hereto, the philosophers say that idleness is the mother of luxury.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
