repugnancies

Noun

repugnancy (countable and uncountable, plural repugnancies)

1. The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.
   • […] howsoever nature dictates, that government is necessary for the safety of the society, yet every singular person, by corruption and selfe-love, hath a naturall aversenesse and repugnancie to submit to any; every man would be a King himselfe […]1644, Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex, London: John Field, Quest. VIII, page 49
2. The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.
   • For if the paralleles be of this nature, that howe muche the nearer we are th’equinoctiall, so muche the greater is the heate: and howe muche the furder remoued from th’equinoctiall, so muche the colder the qualitie of the aire is: there must seme a manifest repugnancie, betwixt Auicenne, & the...1559, William Cuningham, The Cosmographical Glasse, Book 2
3. (archaic) Resistance, fighting back.
   • Why do fond men expoſe themſelues to Battell,
     And not endure all threats? Sleep vpon’t,
     And let the Foes quietly cut their Throats
     Without repugnancy?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...