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 Translation for 'repugnance' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a repugnance | repugnances
SYNO horror | incompatibility | inconsistency | ...
ímugustur {k}repugnance
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Translation for 'repugnance' from English to Icelandic

repugnance
ímugustur {k}
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Usage Examples English
  • However, his eccentricity and a "strong repugnance to oaths" meant that he left before graduation.
  • Conversely, his encounters with Nelson filled him with repugnance, for the Admiral's treatment of the French officers was both brutal and cruel.
  • Along with the fundamental doctrine, certain characteristics have always marked those who profess unitarianism: a large degree of tolerance, a historical study of scripture, a minimizing of essentials, and a repugnance to formulated creed.
  • Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), also known as Solomon Eagle, His repugnance for the organised church was reflected in the Quaker name for church buildings in his time: "steeple-houses".
  • The repugnance of markets varies according to time, culture, and economic development, among other factors.

  • His mysticism seems to have been the cause of his repugnance to literary publications.
  • In December of that year he wrote to the Lord Provost, sent his best wishes and expressed the "utmost repugnance to parting with the Crichton lectern."
  • Despite the treaty having been signed by these high-ranking officers, the Navarrese battalions, above all, felt a certain repugnance, distrust and discontent, to the point that some officials still intended military revolt.
  • It is said that the population of the town, to express their sympathy with the "patriot" being "murdered by law", and to mark their repugnance of the conduct of the Government towards him, quit the town on the day of his execution.
  • Except false information and advertisements, inspirational articles and Chicken Soup for the Soul(心靈雞湯) style stories elicit repugnance as well.

  • Nostophobia is repugnance or dislike of the past, the antithesis of nostalgia.
  • Leon Kass's "Wisdom of Repugnance" presents a prime example of a feelings-based response to an ethical dilemma.
  • Minko has been outspoken about his repugnance for NGOs in Cambodia Minko has cited 'the inefficiency and mismanagement' and corruption regarding the World Aid Organization dollars that have poured into Cambodia.
  • The case is often cited for the quote of Lord Cross in relation to the repugnance of the English courts for Nazi era confiscation laws.
  • She also identifies the 'wisdom of repugnance' as advocated by Leon Kass as another "politics of disgust" school of thought as it claims that disgust "in crucial cases ...

  • Leon Kass, a bioethicist, has advocated that "in crucial cases...repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power fully to articulate it."
  • With the former are associated the emotions of joy and sadness, love and hate, desire and repugnance; with the latter, daring and fear, hope and despair, anger.
  • Swedish attempts to introduce Lutheranism were met with repugnance by the Orthodox peasantry obliged to attend Lutheran services; converts were promised grants and tax reductions, but Lutheran gains were most of all due to voluntary resettlements from Savonia and Karelia.
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