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单词 repugnancy
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repugnancyn.

Brit. /rᵻˈpʌɡnənsi/, U.S. /rəˈpəɡnənsi/, /riˈpəɡnənsi/
Forms: late Middle English repugnacie (transmission error), late Middle English–1600s repugnancie, 1500s repugnancye, 1500s repugnauncie, 1500s repugnauncy, 1500s– repugnancy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin repugnantia.
Etymology: < classical Latin repugnantia repugnance n.; compare -ancy suffix. Compare repugnance n. and foreign-language forms cited at that entry.
1. Tendency to oppose, fight, or rebel against something; opposition or resistance to action. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance
witherOE
wiþerstrencþc1175
withstanding1303
resistancea1325
gainstandinga1340
withsetting1340
resistencec1390
again-standingc1400
resisting1436
repugnance?a1439
gainstandc1470
disstandingc1485
against-standinga1500
repugnancya1500
resist1535
objection1543
reluctation1593
resistment1605
rebeck1609
reluctance1609
reluctancy1613
obluctation1615
redaction1621
resistencya1623
obstrigillation1623
resistal1631
resistancy1656
recalcitration1658
stemc1700
calcitration1867
push-back1984
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 34 (MED) Enemytees gendreth bataille; bataille, deth and destruccion of citees, and that is contrarie to nature, for thurgh resistence and repugnacie [read repugnancie] is destroyed nature.
?1551 A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino Serm. (new ed.) in R. Argentine & A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino Certayne Serm. xx. sig. L.i God from the beginning for sawe in vs nothing but repugnancy and rebellion agaynst his grace, being by the sinne of Adam, childrene of ire, prone and enclined to all euyl.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 979/2 His too much repugnancie..in matters of councell to the residue of the councellors about the king.
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 385 King Henry the sixt was triumphantly crowned..mauger the Dolphins then repugnancie.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D3v He was sent Lord Deputy into Ireland, as it was then apprehended, for a kind of hautinesse, and repugnancie in counsells.
1810 U. J. Seetzen Countries adjoining Lake of Tiberias, Jordan, & Dead Sea 13 At the moment of departure, he hesitated, and retracted his engagement. The advantageous offer which I made him overcame his repugnancy, and he resolved to accompany me.
2.
a. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility; an instance of this. Cf. repugnance n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > inconsistency or contradiction
repugnancec1443
contrariety1483
repugnancya1500
inconstance1529
contrariosity1540
inconstancy1565
contradictiona1571
disconformity1572
inconsistence1643
inconsistentness1647
inconsistibility1650
inconsistency1651
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 62 (MED) Corrupcion of the body cometh of 2 causes..naturell..innaturell. Naturell cometh of repugnancie and contradiccion of 4 contrarie qualitees.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. i. 464 b Whiche are two suche repugnauncies and contraries, as darkenes is not more contrary to lyght, nor death to lyfe.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. i. 1 Without any repugnancie at all, a Poet may in some sort be said a follower or imitator.
a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 391 This carrieth a repugnancie in it, inasmuch as the house and the wall are all one thing.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 137 Both the Hypotheses do entangle..the Doctrine..with greater Difficulties and Repugnancies.
1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. v. ii. 337 If these..serve to remove the apparent repugnancy between the success of prayer, and the character of the Deity, it is enough.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 610 From the number and repugnancy..there is no small difficulty in reducing them to anything like an intelligible classification.
1865 Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 3/4 Even Sir James Stephen..acknowledged that he could not render the exact legal idea of ‘repugnancy’ more intelligible.
1920 Harvard Theol. Rev. 13 190 He sees in realism no repugnancy to some kind of theistic faith.
1998 Islamic Law & Society 5 438 If the Shariat Bench found a law contrary to the injunctions of Islam, the law, to the extent of the repugnancy, would cease to operate.
b. The opposite of something. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite of something > of or to something spec.
reversec1405
negative1532
repugnancy1586
antithesis1831
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B1 The repugnancie hereof is, when eyther with insufficient tearmes..or otherwyse with often iterating..wee abbreauiate or amplifie our Epistles.
3.
a. Opposition or resistance of mind or feeling. In later use: a feeling of strong aversion (= repugnance n. 3).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness
frowardnessa1300
waywardnessc1384
wrawnessc1386
frowardship14..
perversity?a1425
frowardheadc1470
overthwartnessc1475
adversity1489
perversednessa1500
thrawnness1499
untowardnessa1525
protervitya1527
repugnancy1557
thrawardness1567
contrariousness1571
crookedness1576
thwartness1577
pervertness1581
peevishness1582
awkness1587
crabbedness1598
untowardliness1598
crossness1600
difficileness1612
contrariness1642
perverseness1644
cross-grainedness1652
wrong-headedness1740
pigheadedness1801
cussedness1852
orneriness1880
bloody-mindedness1910
difficultness1934
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > of mind or feeling
repugnancy1557
abversion1638
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [noun]
wlatingc725
wlatc960
ugginga1325
uglinessc1325
loathingc1340
abominationc1350
wlatsomenessc1380
wlatingness1382
fastidie?a1425
loathsomenessc1425
ugsomenessc1450
horribility1496
detestation1526
abhorring1528
dislikingc1540
fastidiousness1541
abhorfulness1556
fulsomeness1563
execration1570
abhorment1576
detesting1591
loath?1591
abhorrence1592
abhorrency1596
dislike1597
distaste1598
disgust1611
nausea1619
oppositeness1619
nauseousness1622
detest1638
wearisomeness1642
repugnance1643
odium1645
abhorrition1649
abominate1651
nausity1654
disdain1655
repugnancy1681
degoust1716
repulsion1751
self-repugnance1852
kick1893
1557 Bible (Whittingham) 1 Cor. i. 10 (note) Dissention of mynde, wherof procedeth repugnancie of iudgement, which is the mother of schisme and heresie.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. iii. sig. Dd.iijv/1 Yet is that repugnancie stil in their hearts.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 131 Such an horrible repugnancie of heart against this way.
1681 P. Bellon tr. F. de Monginot New Myst. Physick 64 If the Sick has a repugnancy against so frequently taking of the Drink, it may be given less often.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. Pref. p. xiii It hath not that violent Repugnancy of Nature to struggle with, which that of the Hypocrite hath. View more context for this quotation
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. II. 52 Pole's strong repugnancy to accept the highest dignity.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 316 He treated the Puritan divines with more and more determined repugnancy.
1934 Eng. Hist. Rev. 49 507 His sense of those failures is all the more keen because of his repugnancy to certain principles which he sees underlying and vitiating those ideals.
1998 C. A. V. Holmes There is No Such Thing as Therapist vi. 146 The human condition condemns us to confront the repugnancy of our finitude, so that we may more fully commit ourselves to living in the present.
b. Dislike or aversion on the part of a person. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [noun] > aversion on the part of one
repugnancy1702
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. ii. viii. 267 Scarce any Man arriv'd at the Empire with a more sully'd Reputation, or a greater Repugnancy of the People.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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