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Repugnance vs Repugn - What's the difference?

repugnance | repugn | Derived terms |

Repugnance is a derived term of repugn.


As a noun repugnance

is repugnance.

As a verb repugn is

(archaic) to oppose or resist.

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.

    • repugn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To oppose or resist

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "repugn")

    Derived terms

    * repugnance * repugnancy * repugnant

    Related terms

    * impugn * pugilism * pugnacious