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  • verb Present participle of repugn.

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Examples

  • White people have no reason to feel guilty for voting against, or even repugning, politicians like Jackson and Sharpton.

    From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007

  • Now, if any should dissent from what I have before asserted concerning this particular, I would entreat him to lay down some notes whereby heresies may infallibly be discerned to be such; and he shall not find me repugning.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • He defyned it on this maner: "Heresye is a fals opinioun, defended with pertinacie, cleirlye repugning to the word of God."

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

  • In oppin audience thay declair the auctoratie of Princeis and Magistratis to be of God; and thairfoir thay affirme, that thay aucht to be honourit, feirit, obeyit, evin for conscience saik; providit that thay command nor requyre nathing expreslie repugning to Godis commandiment and plane will, reveillit in his holy worde.

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

  • From this 14th verse, unto the end of the 19th, it appears, that the prophet observes no order; yea, that he speaks things directly repugning (6) one to another; for, _first_, he saith, “The dead shall not live:” afterwards, he affirms, “Thy dead men shall live.”

    The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch

  • [84] The writers of the Scottish Confession in 1560 protest 'that if any man will note in this our Confession any article or sentence repugning to God's holy word, that it would please him of his gentleness, and for

    John Knox A. Taylor Innes

  • Jatupon's thoughts had briefly usurped his mind; and even in repugning the advances and regaining this mental kingdom from the boy he was certain that Jatupon was probably still there hidden behind a hill of gray matter, wounded but waiting for an opportune moment to initiate a new attack.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • Who, I say, would not think, that these are things not only spoken without good order and purpose, but also manifestly repugning one to another?

    The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. John Welch

  • "In many things repugning quite both to God's law and man's" is how the poet Edmund Spenser characterized it.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • They request that, “if any man will note in this our Confession any article or sentence repugning to God's Holy Word,” he will favour them with his criticism in writing.

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

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