Repugnance
//ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns//
"Repugnance" in a Sentence (8 examples)
I cannot overcome my repugnance to eating snails.
The marriage betwixt Janet Dalrymple and David Dunbar of Baldoon now went forward, the bride showing no repugnance, but being absolutely passive in everything her mother commanded or advised.
She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.
He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.
moral repugnance
sense of repugnance
express repugnance
Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
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