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Definition of Repugning
1. repugn [v] - See also: repugn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repugning
Literary usage of Repugning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"From this fourteenth verse unto the end of the nineteenth, it appears that the
prophet observes no order; yea, that he speaks things directly repugning one ..."
2. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"... and human wisdom, repugning against the spirit, and will not be subject thereto,
nor may so be of their own power or strength, bat by the Spirit of God, ..."
3. History and Repository of Pulpit Eloquence, (deceased Divines,) Containing by Henry Clay Fish (1856)
"Who, I say, would not think that these are things not only spoken without good
order and purpose, but also manifestly repugning one to another? ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland by John Knox, William M'Gavin (1841)
"From this Hili verse unto the end of the 19th, it appeareth, that the prophet
observeth no order ; yea, that he speaketh things directly repugning one to ..."
5. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"... but in many things repugning quite both to Gods law and mans. ... for repugning
Gods message ' Of Arménie I rede thus ; There was a kynge, ..."
6. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"But because this mortal body of sin is ever repugning unto the spirit, and our
greatest enemy, daily borne about with us, the apostle exhorts us most ..."
7. British Reformers by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Publication (1842)
"Who, I say, would not think, that these are things not only spoken without good
order and purpose, but also manifestly repugning one to another? ..."
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