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  • noun Plural form of repugnancy.

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Examples

  • In general I think Democrats and progressives should get over process repugnancies that may harm core outcome goals. all subject to expert analysis and insight, of course.

    Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus Update 2009

  • But at the same time, I think any form of societal group, whether as large as a nation or as small as an off-world colony, can sustain viability despite a host of moral repugnancies.

    my new system of morality 2008

  • Now how to determine this case and clear the seeming repugnancies doth not belong to philosophers or grammarians, but to rhetoricians, that are well skilled both in grammar and philosophy.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Now how to determine this case and clear the seeming repugnancies doth not belong to philosophers or grammarians, but to rhetoricians, that are well skilled both in grammar and philosophy.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Panurge exclaimeth that those answers are full of repugnancies and contradictions, protesting that he understands them not, nor what it is that can be meant by them.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Panurge exclaimeth that those answers are full of repugnancies and contradictions, protesting that he understands them not, nor what it is that can be meant by them.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • His method consists in hunting up contradictions and repugnancies in the Analects.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Your indulgent treatment encourages me to add that I feel very sensibly the force of your remarks on the impropriety of yielding to my repugnancies in abandoning my property in slaves and my native State.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

  • A certain amount of intermingling of students, travelers, missionaries, traders, is highly beneficial, in the exchange of ideas and manners it stimulates; that the main racial stocks should remain apart, on their several continents, in that mutual respect and brotherhood that the superficial repugnancies of too close contact tend to destroy.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • III. and lastly, That supposing a sufficiency of reason for this belief, all difficulties, and seeming repugnancies allegeable against it, do exceedingly advance the worth, value, and excellency of it.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

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