repugnancy
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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 George Berkeley
It has been seen that the law does not go on any merely logical ground, and does not hold that every slight repugnancy will make a contract even voidable.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
And can you think it possible that should really exist in nature which implies a repugnancy in its conception?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
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