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
Now the repugnancy of these things is evident.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
But where there are no ideas, there no repugnancy can be demonstrated between ideas?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
For the assertion carries in it a repugnancy to the standing rules of reason; forasmuch as the decayed stock of dry nourishment seems more naturally to call for its proper supplies.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
