- 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
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 Berkeley, George
Rational knowledge is the perception of the connection and agreement or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas....
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
But, it is no repugnancy to say that a perceiving thing should be the subject of ideas, or an active thing the cause of them.
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
