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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of repugn.

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Examples

  • So much so, that yesterday when I attempted to proceed in my usually disorderly way I was sufficiently repugned to abort the attempt.

    Order « Unknowing 2010

  • That the Papisticall lawes repugned to the lawes of the Evangell, he proved by the lawis maid of observatioun of dayis, absteanyng from meattis, and frome mariage, which Christ Jesus maid free; and the forbidding whereof, Sanct Paule called "the doctrin of devillis."

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • The Clargy hearto long repugned; butt in the end, convicted by reassonis and by multitud of votes in thare contrare, thei also condiscended; and so by Act of

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Grange, [584] and otheris, repugned to thare purpoise, fearing least that the eschaping of the otheris should be ane occasioun of thare warse entreatment.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And Knox in later years had travelled so far on the road of modern constitutionalism as to maintain the right of subjects to combine against and overthrow the ruler whose intolerant statutes so _repugned_.

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • This accusatioun was easely receaved and more easelye beleved [103] of the carnall Prince, who altogitther was gevin to the filthy loostis of the fleshe, abhorred all counsall that repugned thairto.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And when the very sleep came and oppressed me against which I oft repugned, then I laid my dried bones on the bare earth.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • And Moses repugned against Pharaoh, and Paul against the devil every day.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • And some arose of the synagogue called libertines, of a religion so named of them that were the sons of them that had been in bondage and were made free, and thus they that first repugned against the faith were of a bond and thrall lineage, and also they of Cyrenia and Alexandria, and of them that were of

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • "Everything that repugned to their corrupt affections was termed in their mockage 'devout imaginations,'" says Knox: and it was no doubt Lethington from whose quiver this winged word came, with so many more.

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

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