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repugnaunce

repugnaunce is the obsolete form of repugnance.

Meaning of repugnance

Noun

repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)

  1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.
    • moral repugnance
  2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
    • [T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.1661, Galilæus Galilæus Lyncæus [i.e., Galileo Galilei], “The Systeme of the World: In Four Dialogues. […]. The Second Dialogue.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and...

Forms of repugnaunce

pluralrepugnaunces

Questions about repugnaunce

What is repugnaunce the obsolete form of?
Repugnaunce is the obsolete form of repugnance.

Words near repugnaunce in the dictionary

  1. repugnate
  2. repugnated
  3. repugnates
  4. repugnating
  5. repugnatorial
  6. repugnaunce
  7. repugnaunces
  8. repugned
  9. repugner
  10. repugners
  11. Repugnican

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