单词 | self-repugnancy |
释义 | self-repugnancyn. Now rare. The quality or fact of being self-contradictory; internal inconsistency. Cf. self-repugnance n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction self-repugnance1532 paradox1589 paradoxicalness1668 self-repugnancy1674 militation1778 paradoxy1796 paradoxicality1815 schizophrenia1933 1674 R. Boyle About Excellency & Grounds Mech. Hypothesis 16 in Excellency Theol. They..have recourse to agents, which..involve no self-repugnancy in their very notions, as many of the judicious think substantial forms and real qualities do. a1747 J. Dickinson Second Vindic. God's Sovereign Free Grace (1748) 39 If your Church teaches some Things inconsistent with her declared Articles of Faith, I know of nothing that will follow from thence, but a Charge of Self-Repugnancy. 1871 Court of Appeal in Chancery (Ireland): Judgment Tenants Waterford Estate 17 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 418) LVIII. 443 The framers of the first clause..have baffled their own purpose and produced insensible self-repugnancy. 2010 J. M. Bac Perfect Will Theol. vi. 268 The insistence upon self-repugnancy as an indication for impossibility..is typical for Reformed theology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674 |
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