repugnance
noun
the state of being repugnant.
repugnancy
-
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
It has been seen that the law does not go on any merely logical ground, and does not hold that every slight repugnancy will make a contract even voidable.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is no repugnancy, and if that person is ready to deliver that thing, the purchaser cannot say that any term in the contract itself is not complied with.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 George Berkeley
