repugnance

Example Sentences

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Your indulgent treatment encourages me to add that I feel very sensibly the force of your remarks on the impropriety of yielding to my repugnancies in abandoning my property in slaves and my native State.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

Panurge exclaimeth that those answers are full of repugnancies and contradictions, protesting that he understands them not, nor what it is that can be meant by them.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Now how to determine this case and clear the seeming repugnancies doth not belong to philosophers or grammarians, but to rhetoricians, that are well skilled both in grammar and philosophy.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

You defy me to solve the difficulties, or reconcile the repugnancies which you discover in them.

From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume, David

When the soul is disenfranchised of all that is opposed to the will of God; when it is not arrested either by desires or repugnancies, it runs without stopping or weariness in the way.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte