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 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
But they make this repugnancy yet more evident by their demonstration.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
But I cannot by any means bring myself to think there is no such peculiar repugnancy between the creation and your opinion; though indeed where to fix it, I do not distinctly know.
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
