Definition of Repugn

1. Verb. To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation. "They contested the outcome of the race"

Exact synonyms: Contend, Contest
Generic synonyms: Oppose
Specialized synonyms: Challenge, Dispute, Gainsay
Derivative terms: Contention, Contest, Contestable, Contestation, Contestee, Contester, Repugnance

Definition of Repugn

1. v. t. To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

Definition of Repugn

1. Verb. (archaic) To oppose or resist ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repugn

1. to oppose [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: oppose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repugn

republishes
republishing
repudiable
repudiate
repudiated
repudiates
repudiating
repudiation
repudiationist
repudiationists
repudiations
repudiative
repudiator
repudiators
repudiatory
repugn (current term)
repugnable
repugnance
repugnances
repugnancies
repugnancy
repugnant
repugnantly
repugnate
repugnatorial
repugnaunce
repugned
repugning
repugns
repullulate

Literary usage of Repugn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim: A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth by William Thomas (1861)
"... to the intent that if any person should repugn against it, thou, with the mountain of thy natural reasons, shouldest have matter sufficient accordingly ..."

2. Latter-day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle (1901)
"its stead, what can I compute but that Nature, in horrible throes, will repugn against such substitution,—that, in short, the astonishing new ..."

3. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas by Arkansas (1830)
"acts and parts of acts, repugnant to, or inconsistent Acts repugn't with, the provisions of this act, be, and the same is t(i iiiis act [afe] hereby, ..."

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