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Deplore vs Repugnance - What's the difference?

deplore | repugnance |

As a verb deplore

is .

As a noun repugnance is

repugnance.

deplore

English

Verb

(deplor)
  • To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
    • I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
    The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
    I deplore not having listened to your advice.
  • To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
    • I deplore how you treated him at the party.
    Many people deplore the actions of a corrupt government.
  • (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * bewail * condemn

    Related terms

    * deplorable * deploration

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    Anagrams

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    repugnance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.