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Repugnance vs Recalcitrate - What's the difference?

repugnance | recalcitrate |

As a noun repugnance

is repugnance.

As a verb recalcitrate is

to kick back; to kick against anything.

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.

    • recalcitrate

    English

    Verb

    (recalcitrat)
  • To kick back; to kick against anything.
  • (by extension) To express repugnance or opposition.
  • * De Quincey
    • The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks.

    Related terms

    * recalcitrant (Webster 1913) ----