单词 | unrepulsing |
释义 | unrepulsingadj. rare. That does not repulse or rebuff someone. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > [adjective] unresisting1586 resistless1591 unaffrontive1720 unrepulsing1748 unstruggling1822 unrepugnant1823 unresistant1832 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxx. 180 I kissed her unrepulsing hand. 1769 ‘A Lady’ Sibyl II. 8 Sir Stafford, on her unrepulsing hand, impressed the ardency of a steady and refined affection. 1938 A. J. Rosanoff Man. Psychiatry & Mental Hygiene (ed. 7) xxiii. 555 (in table) Friendships with persons of own sex included one or more affairs in which the subject was the unresponsive but unrepulsing object of homosexual crushes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1748 |
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