Repugnance vs Repulse - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between repugnance and repulse

is that repugnance is repugnance while repulse is the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.

to repel or drive back.

(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.

to repel or drive back

to repulse''' an assault; to '''repulse the enemy

to reject or rebuff

to repulse a suitor

to cause revulsion

(en noun)

the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed

refusal, rejection or repulsion

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