repugn

American  

[ri-pyoon] / rɪˈpyun /

verb (used with object)

1. to oppose or refute.

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verb (used without object)

1. Archaic.  to resist.

repugn British  

/ rɪˈpjuːn /

verb

1. archaic  to oppose or conflict (with)

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Etymology

Origin of repugn

1325–75; Middle English repugnen < Middle French repugner < Latin repugnāre to resist, equivalent to re- re- + pugnāre to fight

Example Sentences

But if any do never so little repugn against the high divinity of Aristotle, he is quickly with clapping of hands driven out of the place.

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How I should rebel at the office, repugn under the Ulster coat, and repudiate your monkish humours thus unjustly and suddenly thrust upon poor, infidel me!

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Who, I say, would not think, that these are things not only spoken without good order and purpose, but also manifestly repugning one to another?

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"Everything that repugned to their corrupt affections was termed in their mockage 'devout imaginations,'" says Knox: and it was no doubt Lethington from whose quiver this winged word came, with so many more.

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And Knox in later years had travelled so far on the road of modern constitutionalism as to maintain the right of subjects to combine against and overthrow the ruler whose intolerant statutes so repugned.

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