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   repugnance

   /rɪˈpʌɡnəns/

   noun

   • 1. intense disgust: "our repugnance at the bleeding carcasses"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘opposition’): from Old French repugnance or Latin repugnantia, from repugnare ‘oppose’, from re- (expressing opposition) + pugnare ‘to fight’.

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