Crossword clues for repugnance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repugnance \Re*pug"nance\ (-nans), Repugnancy \Re*pug"nan*cy\ (-nan-s?), n. [F. r['e]pugnance, L. repugnantia.] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.
That which causes us to lose most of our time is the
repugnance which we naturally have to labor.
--Dryden.
Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
Without repugnancy.
--Shak.
Syn: Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French repugnance "opposition, resistance" (13c.) or directly from Latin repugnantia "incompatibility," from stem of repugnare "resist, disagree, be incompatible" (see repugnant).
Wiktionary
n. 1 extreme aversion, repulsion 2 contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
WordNet
the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency]
Usage examples of "repugnance".
Lady Bellamy, too, had been to see her twice, and on each occasion had inspired her with a lively sense of fear and repugnance.
Gladstone, but his repugnance to act with Disraeli personally, and his opposition to the protectionist schemes of both that minister and Lord Derby, rendered all negotiations unsuccessful.
He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.
Judge Schor whom we believed to be our enemy was brisk and matter-of-fact and must have learned to disguise his repugnance for Reddy.
Yet, with not a whit less of worshipfulness and consecration, there grew in him a repugnance to the sectarianism of the Churches which put him somewhat out of sympathy with their formal organizations.
Soul at once begins to create, as under order, unhindered in some of its creations, striving in others against the repugnance of Matter.
The two ladies, pressing closely to one another, and drawing the bedclothes tightly around them, remained silent to this supplicating voice, repugnance and fear taking possession of their minds.
A genuinely feeling soul has an insuperable repugnance alike for unfeelingness, for false feeling, and for false expressions of feeling.
Tall, thin, colourless, and obviously virginal, she inspired a vague repugnance even in those unliberated days.
These are the wittols, treated with a mixture of repugnance, contempt and superstitious awe.
But if we speak of natural quantity, there may be repugnance on the part of the form to which a determined quantity is due, even as other accidents are determined.
When experiments on animals seemed to him absolutely indispensable, he had recourse to them, but always with repugnance, and with desire to avoid giving of pain.
But I went on to state the reasons which had actuated me in favoring the measure, and that my unconquerable repugnance to the acquisition of territory to be held in dependency did not apply to that case.
Nor is the repugnance abolished by the reflection that, although we do not see the floating particles, we are taking them into our lungs every hour and minute of our lives.
I am aware that, owing to a feeling which is called natural, but which is perhaps only the result of civilization and the effect of the prejudices inherent in youth, most men object to any witness in those moments, but those who cannot give any good reasons for their repugnance must have in their nature something of the cat.