0 a strong, often sudden, feeling that something is extremely unpleasant:
Revulsion to dismemberment (or to creating a member where there was none, as it were) further manifests itself in debates over the acceptability of transsexuals.
The "avant-garde" works take on value because they were "greeted with revulsion by conservative critics" (250).
At the heart of the early modern response to the learned woman was the sense of the denatured, variously expressed as absurdity, revulsion, or wonder.
The subsequent "cognitive revolution" was as much a revulsion at the vague overgeneralizing of conditioning paradigms as anything.
They stand as symptoms of both cultural regression and physical and moral suffering, objects of both revulsion and identification.
And revulsion at the way the 1950s and '60s avantgarde went on to compound the crime permeates the volume's second main part.
Natural revulsion at the earliest inquisitors has also caused difficulties.
This revulsion against slavery was to become a global phenomenon in the twentieth century, though the emancipation movement still has unfinished business even today.
