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Definition of Repugn
1. Verb. To make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation. "They contested the outcome of the race"
Generic synonyms: Oppose
Specialized synonyms: Challenge, Dispute, Gainsay
Derivative terms: Contention, Contest, Contestable, Contestation, Contestee, Contester, Repugnance
Definition of Repugn
1. v. t. To fight against; to oppose; to resist.
Definition of Repugn
1. Verb. (archaic) To oppose or resist ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Repugn
1. to oppose [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: oppose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repugn
Literary usage of Repugn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim: A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth by William Thomas (1861)
"... to the intent that if any person should repugn against it, thou, with the
mountain of thy natural reasons, shouldest have matter sufficient accordingly ..."
2. Latter-day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle (1901)
"its stead, what can I compute but that Nature, in horrible throes, will repugn
against such substitution,—that, in short, the astonishing new ..."
3. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas by Arkansas (1830)
"acts and parts of acts, repugnant to, or inconsistent Acts repugn't with, the
provisions of this act, be, and the same is t(i iiiis act [afe] hereby, ..."
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