repugnance
noun
the state of being repugnant.
repugnancy
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a variation of
repugnance.
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
In the next place, the reverend brother makes short work of my five arguments to prove the repugnancy of his doctrine to the solemn league and covenant.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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 George Berkeley
The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
