All 3 Uses of
repulse
in
David Copperfield
- If my family are at length sensible of the deprivation to which their own conduct has, in the past, exposed them, and now desire to extend the hand of fellowship, let it not be repulsed.'†
Chpt 55-57
- He repulsed her.†
Chpt 58-60
- She was always labouring, in secret, under this distress; and being delicate and downcast at the time of his last repulse — for it was not the first, by many — pined away and died.†
Chpt 58-60 *
Definition:
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(repulse as in: repulse the attack) to force something to move away