repugnance Meaning & Definition

  • En [ rɪˈpʌɡ.nəns]
  • Us [ rɪˈpʌɡ.nəns]

Meaning of repugnance In English

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Examples of repugnance

  • I felt utter repugnance toward him.

  • I tried to overcome my natural repugnance.

  • the moral repugnance provoked by the idea of keeping animals in enclosures

  • At noon, the beggars who aroused the least repugnance were to call at houses in carefully selected streets.

  • However, when the campaign went further and demanded that they criticize themselves and even expose others, many began to feel a repugnance to this.

  • Others believe that the secrecy signifies the degree of repugnance others experience toward those who have such conditions.

  • Although there was comparatively little public discussion, my guess is that there would have been as great a sense of repugnance then as there has been recently.

  • It is really these precisions which are at the bottom of the repugnance of the gentlemen connected with the teaching board.

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