repugnancy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion. countable,uncountable
    — […] howsoever nature dictates, that government is necessary for the safety of the society, yet every singular person, by corruption and selfe-love, hath a naturall aversenesse and repugnancie to submit to any; every man would be a King himselfe […]
  2. The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility. countable,uncountable
    — For if the paralleles be of this nature, that howe muche the nearer we are th’equinoctiall, so muche the greater is the heate: and howe muche the furder remoued from th’equinoctiall, so muche the colder the qualitie of the aire is: there must seme a manifest repugnancie, betwixt Auicenne, & the Geographers.
  3. Resistance, fighting back. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Why do fond men expoſe themſelues to Battell, And not endure all threats? Sleep vpon’t, And let the Foes quietly cut their Throats Without repugnancy?

词形变化

repugnancies plural

词汇关系

相关词
repugnance

词源

From Middle English repugnancie, from Latin repugnantia. By surface analysis, repugnant + -cy. Doublet of repugnance.
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