antipathetic

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Mutually antipathetic, they quarrelled, but could not afford to quarrel long.

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  1. adjective Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance: antipathetic to new ideas.
  2. adjective Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic: antipathetic factions within the party.
  3. adjective Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant: "The whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her” (Anthony Trollope).

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  • After 1760 the great stream divided into two; the rationalist and the emotional schools became visibly antipathetic, and the voice of the epoch was no longer single or undistracted. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
  • The miners are apt to argue that dividends and safety precautions are mutually antipathetic, and will continue to do so as long as they have no part or lot in the reconciliation of these competing obligations. —  Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922
  • Some are sympathetic; some antipathetic, attracting or repelling each other; some mingle gently; others, when brought into contact, cause violent explosions DRAWING OUT AND CONCENTRATING ELECTRICITIES FOR USE WE discovered the means of drawing out the various electricities from the body to which they are appetent, and of concentrating and preserving them for use Man, beasts, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, trees, plants, water, in short, all substances organic and inorganic, possess each its own peculiar electricity. —  Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
  • Mutually antipathetic, they quarrelled, but could not afford to quarrel long. —  The Dust Flower
  • After 1760 the great stream divided into two; the rationalist and the emotional schools became visibly antipathetic, and the voice of the epoch was no longer single or undistracted FOOTNOTES 331] See above p. 149 332] Voltaire to Rousseau. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
 

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