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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of repugn.

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Examples

  • Texas repugns once again shows that they are the state for big hair, big hats and little pea brains.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 3, 2010 2010

  • That “spreit” must have illuminated the Kirk as it then existed in Scotland, “for we dare not receive and admit any interpretation which directly repugns to any principal point of our faith, to any other plain text of Scripture, or yet unto the rule of charity.”

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • That "spreit" must have illuminated the Kirk as it then existed in Scotland, "for we dare not receive and admit any interpretation which directly repugns to any principal point of our faith, to any other _plain_ text of Scripture, or yet unto the rule of charity."

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

  • * Dryasdust puzzles and pokes for some biography of this Beodric; and repugns to consider him a mere East-Anglian Person of

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • [4] Dryasdust puzzles and pokes for some biography of this Beodric; and repugns to consider him a mere East-Anglian Person of Condition, not in need of a biography, -- whose [Old English: weowð], _weorth_ or

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • 'seeing that my Lords Bishops, who for their learning can, and for that zeal they should bear to the verity, would (as I suppose) gainsay anything that directly repugns to the verity of

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • For, seeing that my Lord Bishops here present, who for their learning can, and for the zeal they should bear to the veritie would, I suppose, gainsay anything that directly repugns to the veritie of God, speaks nothing in the contraire of the doctrine proposed, I cannot but hold it to be the very truth of God. "

    Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

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