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Definition of Repelled
1. repel [v] - See also: repel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repelled
Literary usage of Repelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1868)
"... cannonade on land front—Sherman assaults with Blair and Steele's divisions—Troops
reach the parapet, but arc repelled—Ransom's assault—Difficult nature ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"The success with which h« eluded or repelled the first attacks, could not inspire
a vain confidence, that, at the head of some loose, disorderly Africans, ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... Vampires ; Visionary Demons—Demons of darkness repelled by fire—Demons otherwise
manifest: seen by animals ; detected by footprints—Spirit* conceived ..."
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