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Repugnance, n. Also: -pwgn- and -aunce. [ME and e.m.E. repugnaunce (1387–8), -ance (c1400), also repungn- (c1449). F. répugnance (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), L. repugnantia.] a. Contradiction, inconsistency. b. Opposition or contrast between or of things. c. Resistance (offered to a person or thing). —a. 1490 Irland Mir. I 16/16.
I traist thai sall find na faute nore repugnaunce in this werk —b. 1456 Hay II 136/32.
And corrumpit nature in the man makis him till have repugnaunce in his qualiteis 1490 Irland Mir. I 64/24.
Thocht he was … maid of the elementis that has contrariete and repugnaunce —c. 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 172/15.
How [has] … Christiane man … levit vniuersalie in perpetuale idolatrie … without repwgnance or ganestanding be the provisioun of God? 1567 Facs. Nat. MSS III lv.
Thai … fand in hir maiestie sic vntowardnes and repugnance thairto 1558-66 Knox II 273.
No man reclamed, nor maid repugnance to it, except the Erle of Arrane
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