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
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 George Berkeley
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
The opposite view claims our assent to two incongruous and apparently contradictory propositions, between which there is not only no agreement, but an evident repugnancy.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
