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Repugnance vs Tergiversate - What's the difference?

repugnance | tergiversate |

As a noun repugnance

is extreme aversion, repulsion.

As a verb tergiversate is

to evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.

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.

    • tergiversate

    English

    Verb

    (tergiversat)
  • To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1999 , author=Philip McCutchan and Werner Levi , title=The Hoof , isbn=0816600864 , page=18 , passage=The officials soon concluded that the easiest way to remain on good terms with the court was to elude responsibility, to tergiversate , to prevent results.}}
  • To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Colin Morris and Peter Roberts , title=Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan , chapter=8 , isbn=0521808111 , page=221 , passage=Henry had hesitated before authorising the spoliation; he would soon tergiversate on other matters of doctrine but this act was irreversible.}}

    Synonyms

    * prevaricate * (to change sides) desert

    Derived terms

    * tergiversation