All 3 Uses
antipathy
in
Billy Budd
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- For what can more partake of the mysterious than an antipathy spontaneous and profound, such as is evoked in certain exceptional mortals by the mere aspect of some other mortal, however harmless he may be, if not called forth by this very harmlessness itself?†
Chpt 11antipathy = strong dislike
- Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.†
Chpt 12 *
- Now when the Master-at-arms noticed whence came that greasy fluid streaming before his feet, he must have taken it—to some extent wilfully, perhaps—not for the mere accident it assuredly was, but for the sly escape of a spontaneous feeling on Billy's part more or less answering to the antipathy on his own.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(antipathy) strong dislike
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)