repugnantlyadv.

?1526 J. Fisher Serm. at Paulis sig. E^v Here be worthy maisters for a good christen man to put his soule in their handes, y^t so repugnantly vary in expounding y^e scriptures.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xcii. 139 Whose deede and his thought repungnantlie varie, His woord and his thought iar likewise contrarie.

1586 R. Hooker Disc. Justif. (1618) 59. Works of righteousnesse therefore are not so repugnantly added in the one proposition; as in the other, Circumcision is.

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 33 A man of great Profession, little Deuotion, is like a bodie so repugnantly composed, that hee hath a hot liuer, and a cold stomacke.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues i. xxviii. 112 That is again spitefully interposed,..and yet repugnantly to your own admired Oracle.

1711 E. Gatchell Challenge to Dissenters 11 He that does not endeavor to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace, does act repugnantly to the Nature of Christianity.

1760 ‘Cato’ Tendencies Foundling Hosp. i. iii. 28 To live Incontinently, is, and to live Continently, is not, living repugnantly to the Law of Nature.

1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Mar. 411 He has an object to attain, and, although acting repugnantly to his feelings, yet believes his mode of action to be just.

1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. II. ix, 105 The fight between the sweep and baker is far more detrimental to the baker than the sweep; but both are repugnantly marked, and lose caste by the conflict.

1922 Mod. Lang. Rev. 17 127 A single combat motif..would be altogether out of keeping with the repugnantly crafty character of his [sc. Shakespeare's] Danish original.

1977 J. Korbel 20th-cent. Czechoslovakia i. 24 A sense of inferiority in the Czechs which is often repugnantly manifested as contemptuous rudeness to those beneath them and fawning servility to those above them.

2006 A. Kuczynski Beauty Junkies xi. 204 Jiggling pouches of fat on my thighs, which the beauty industry appropriately yet repugnantly refers to as ‘saddlebags’.