repugnance
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See also: répugnance
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).
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Noun[edit]
repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)
- Extreme aversion, repulsion.
- Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
- Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
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