repugnance

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Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that Barbara had seen it and his attitude, his really very compromising attitude.

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  1. noun Extreme dislike or aversion.
  2. noun Logic The relationship of contradictory terms; inconsistency.

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  • But if called upon to give some motive for their repugnance, they had to confess that they would not know what to say. —  The Waif of the "Cynthia"
  • Worse than the sting of her repugnance was the thought that Barbara had seen it and his attitude, his really very compromising attitude. —  Mr. Waddington of Wyck
  • But, to remove at once from your mind the possibility of such a compromise between your honour and repugnance--repugnance! —  Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
  • Do as I do I tried to, but found it impossible, for my repugnance was immovable. —  A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
  • But "to him that hath shall be given"--Warwick paid for the mule, and the real white folks got most of the credit XX DIGGING UP ROOTS When the first great shock of his discovery wore off, the fact of Rena's origin lost to Tryon some of its initial repugnance--indeed, the repugnance was not to the woman at all, as their past relations were evidence, but merely to the thought of her as a wife. —  The House Behind the Cedars
 

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  1. Early modern English also repugnaunce; from Old French repugnance, French répugnance =Provencal Spanish Portuguese repugnancia =Italian repugnanza, from Latin repugnantia, resistance, opposition, contradiction, repugnance, from repugnan (t-)s, resisting, repugnant: see repugnant.
 

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/rəˈpəgnəns/
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