Disrepute vs Revulsion - What's the difference?
disrepute | revulsion | Related terms |
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
(medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
(obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
* Macaulay
Disrepute is a related term of revulsion.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and revulsion
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while revulsion is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.As a verb disrepute
is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.disrepute
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(-)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .
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*revulsion
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Noun
(en-noun)- Revulsions and pullbacks.
- A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.