All 7 Uses of
repugnant
in
Middlemarch
- It would have seemed beforehand like a ridiculous piece of bad logic that he, with his unmixed resolutions of independence and his select purposes, would find himself at the very outset in the grasp of petty alternatives, each of which was repugnant to him.†
Chpt 2 *
- "No," said Will, feeling suspicion and repugnance rising so strongly within him, that without quite knowing what he did, he took his hat from the floor and stood up.†
Chpt 6
- Repugnance would have been surmounted by the immense need to win, if chance would be kind enough to let him.†
Chpt 7
- He deferred the intention from day to day, his habit of acting on his conclusions being made infirm by his repugnance to every possible conclusion and its consequent act.†
Chpt 7
- But Rosamond went home with a sense of justified repugnance towards her husband.†
Chpt 8
- The question seemed a very dubious one to Will, and his repugnance to again entering into any relation with the banker might have made him dismiss it quickly, if there had not arisen in his imagination the probability that his judgment might be more safely determined by a visit to Middlemarch.†
Chpt 8
- The mass of his feeling about Dorothea's marriage to Ladislaw was due partly to excusable prejudice, or even justifiable opinion, partly to a jealous repugnance hardly less in Ladislaw's case than in Casaubon's.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(repugnant) disgusting