- 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
Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
If we be pleased in this sense to take having and not having of a wife, we shall indeed find no repugnancy nor contradiction in the terms at all.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
