- 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, to pass by all that, would not a man think you were assured there is no repugnancy between the received notions of Materialists and the inspired writings?
From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
But, on the other hand, when the repugnancy is between terms which are both essential, it is fatal to the very existence of the contract.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
