All 10 Uses
repugnant
in
The Three Musketeers
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- And being a Musketeer but for a time, I only fight when I am forced to do so, and always with great repugnance; but this time the affair is serious, for here is a lady compromised by you.†
Chpt 4. *repugnance = strong disgust
- "Indeed," said the cardinal, "whatever repugnance I may have to directing my mind to such a treason, your Majesty compels me to think of it.†
Chpt 16.
- He saw that the duke was searching for a means of making him accept something and the idea that the blood of his friends and himself was about to be paid for with English gold was strangely repugnant to him.†
Chpt 21.repugnant = disgusting
- In consequence of this feeling of repugnance, he was about to pass without speaking to him, but, as he had done the day before, M. Bonacieux accosted him.†
Chpt 25.repugnance = strong disgust
- So no more delay, no more hesitation; or else whatever may be my repugnance to soiling my sword a second time with the blood of a wretch like you, I swear by my faith as an honest man—" and at these words d'Artagnan made so fierce a gesture that the wounded man sprang up.†
Chpt 41.
- "My faith," said Aramis, "I must confess I feel a great repugnance to fire on these poor devils of civilians."†
Chpt 47.
- In fact, the sack of La Rochelle, and the assassination of three of four thousand Huguenots who allowed themselves to be killed, would resemble too closely, in 1628, the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572; and then, above all this, this extreme measure, which was not at all repugnant to the king, good Catholic as he was, always fell before this argument of the besieging generals—La Rochelle is impregnable except to famine.†
Chpt 51.repugnant = disgusting
- Felton made no reply, took the book with the same appearance of repugnance which he had before manifested, and retired pensively.†
Chpt 53.repugnance = strong disgust
- Poverty was repugnant to her; degradation took away two-thirds of her greatness.†
Chpt 56.repugnant = disgusting
- Then Athos took from his pocket a small paper, on which two lines were written, accompanied by a signature and a seal, and presented them to him who had made too prematurely these signs of repugnance.†
Chpt 64.repugnance = strong disgust
Definitions:
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(1)
(repugnant) disgusting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)