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語源

From 中期英語 repugnance, repugnaunce, from Old French repugnance, repugnaunce (French répugnance) and its etymon Latin repugnantia. Doublet of repugnancy.

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/

名詞

repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.

   She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.

   He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.

   moral repugnance

   sense of repugnance

   express repugnance

2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
   • 1661, Galilæus Galilæus Lyncæus [i.e., Galileo Galilei], “The Systeme of the World: In Four Dialogues. […]. The Second Dialogue.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and Translations, tome I, 1st part, London: […] William Leybourne, →OCLC, page 112:

     [T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.

参考

• repugnancy

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