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Meanings of invincible repugnance in English

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Usage of invincible repugnance in English
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An invincible repugnance prevented her from opening one of the doors in the hall.
Under Western Eyes
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But the marquis was absolutely horrified at the idea-shrank from it with invincible repugnance.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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Then swiftly turned her back on him and hid her face with invincible repugnance.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Henry had an invincible repugnance to that coronation on which the Queen had set her heart.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with ...
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My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus
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My gun, likewise, must be left behind me; and that was a loss to which I felt invincible repugnance.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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His rows of technical books, the scholarly and laborious details of his work, filled her with an invincible repugnance.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
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She often wished to visit Jael Dence again at the hospital; but for some time an invincible repugnance withheld her.
Put Yourself in His Place
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Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.
The Age of Innocence
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As for me, I make no claim to superior virtue, but cannot help feeling an invincible repugnance to these shams.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton / An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Mem...
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But Claire, even as a child, had felt an invincible repugnance for the former peasant's hardness of heart and vainglorious selfishness.
Fromont and Risler — Volume 3
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She seemed to have an invincible repugnance to the idea of exposing him to the remarks of other boys on his peculiar position.
Ruth
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They told me of their invincible repugnance, their horror of such questions and answers, and they asked me to have pity on them.
The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional
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The grave lady had an invincible repugnance for vulgar weapons, and Freya referred freely to a portable medicine case full of anesthetics and poisons.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
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This refusal had been dictated by the knight's invincible repugnance to Henry, and by the politic move of conciliating all who opposed the emperor.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
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We shot very few, and then only to discover the invincible repugnance natives have to eating "dagi" as they call all birds.
The Ivory Trail
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