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Definition of Repugns
1. repugn [v] - See also: repugn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repugns
Literary usage of Repugns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"... or passion, " the attraction of vile propen- £' sities, or " sensual pursuits;"
and Tamas (darkness), " the repelling of what repugns," in Arabic, ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"... in the first place, how it repugns not the divine right, for as much as God
overrules all rulers by nature, that is, by the dictates of natural reason. ..."
3. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"should bear to the verity would (as I suppose), gainsay anything that directly
repugns to the verity of God—seeing, I say, my lords here present speak ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"should bear to the verity would (as I suppose), gainsay anything that directly
repugns to the verity of God—seeing, I say, my lords here present speak ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"... which the Intellect propounds, but which the Simplistic Faith of childhood
ignores and arrogantly repugns. The Adult Age means the Replacement of ..."
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