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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revulsion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
▪ It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
▪ A feeling of revulsion for Edusha rose in me.
▪ What amazes me is that, in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen, I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion.
▪ We therefore have a clashing interest of views over whether to feel sympathy or revulsion about Blanche.
▪ He felt a rush of revulsion and indignation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A little boy had died and, as a mother, I felt horror and revulsion.
▪ Foley expressed revulsion at the killings.
▪ Holly was unable to hide her revulsion at what she had just read.
▪ What we are now seeing is a public revulsion against violence in society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Colette works at marshalling our feelings of revulsion at this voracious creature who has almost killed the poor box thorn.
▪ His tenderness was replaced at first by a shuddering revulsion.
▪ I was overwhelmed by grief and revulsion such as I had never known before.
▪ It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
▪ Many of Mahathir's opponents believed that Anwar's arrest and trial would precipitate nationwide revulsion in the November 1999 elections.
▪ Yet, coupled with this sensual joy throughout Walden, there is a running under current of revulsion for the body.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revulsion

Revulsion \Re*vul"sion\, n. [F. r['e]vulsion, L. revulsio, fr. revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere to pull. Cf. Convulse.]

  1. A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. ``Revulsions and pullbacks.''
    --SSir T. Brovne.

  2. A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.

    A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.
    --Macaulay.

  3. (Med.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revulsion

1540s, as a medical term, from Middle French revulsion (16c.) or directly from Latin revulsionem (nominative revulsio) "a tearing off, act of pulling away," noun of action from past participle stem of revellere "to pull away," from re- "away" (see re-) + vellere "to tear, pull," from PIE *wel-no-, suffixed form of root *wel- (4) "to tear, pull" (see svelte). The meaning "sudden reaction of disgust" is first attested 1816.

Wiktionary
revulsion

n. 1 abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror 2 A sudden violent feeling of disgust. 3 (context medicine English) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation. 4 (context obsolete English) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. 5 (context obsolete English) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.

WordNet
revulsion

n. intense aversion [syn: repugnance, repulsion, horror]

Wikipedia
Revulsion (Star Trek: Voyager)

__NOTOC__ "Revulsion" is the 73rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the fifth episode of the fourth season.

Revulsion (disambiguation)

Revulsion is a sudden violent feeling of disgust .

  • Revulsion (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
  • Requiems of Revulsion, a 2001 music album.

Usage examples of "revulsion".

I felt horror at the things being done by some Gamesmen, revulsion, anger, and felt Barish play upon that horror and revulsion.

Then, with a sudden revulsion of spirit for which he was noted, Blotto bounded to his feet and performed hitherto unachieved altitudes in the line of wagging.

By a sudden revulsion of mind, Mallard became aware that in the long fit of brooding just gone by he had not been occupied with Cecily at all.

Despite his revulsion, he is seduced by her allure and, buried in her Medusan coils of loathsome horror, experiences a sensuality that threatens his life force.

And in the morning Jillian was driven from Pali House by guilt and revulsion.

For although what drew the spirits into union was always some deep identity of will, yet also, no sooner were they forced into thorough and respiteless intimacy than in sudden revulsion they strained apart.

Even now, Honor could close her eyes and resummon that cauldron of light and energy in every hideous detail and feel the same sick revulsion at the work of her own hands and mind .

Seized by revulsion, he scooped a stone from the bank and hurled it into the tree with all his might.

Watching it blend into the shadows, she remembered another life, when such a sight would have drawn her revulsion, even her fear, a time when she had lived in a small house in Shrewsbury, with Mama and Abigail and Steppy, and later with Steppy alone.

And so, Deathstalker had watched with considerable interest, and revulsion, as it observed two natives of the subtype known as female stalked by two males.

His tarse was large and thick, but she felt no panic or revulsion, only a hot yearning that compelled her to reach out a finger to touch the very tip.

The last day of the Season and its Thirsting Hour had been a time of remote revulsion for her, irritating and inconvenient but nothing more.

Jair whispered, fighting to contain the sense of revulsion that swept through him.

Elaira shivered in revulsion as a thousand hapless lives were encountered and winnowed aside like the toss of so much dry chaff.

As a result the protest movements seized on and adopted two Second World War novels as their own, novels that expressed the absurdist tenor of the modern revulsion.