It was true that in a man there was self-awareness more keen than in other animals, but from it one could not help analyzing his own insignificance which he would then have to repugn by absconding more fully in the professional and personal domains. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Even if he were to say that it was a new beginning for himself and, unlike other nocturnal prowlers, that he was now a nascent creature capable of appreciating the simple pleasures of the day in a more abstemious lifestyle, there was the immediate past to repugn the assertion. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
What then, if sense and imagination repugn to discourse and reason, affirming that universality to be nothing which reason thinketh herself to see?. From Wordnik.com. [The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
Saint-Fargeau and other Patriot Nobles, let the others repugn as they will: all Titles of Nobility, from Duke to Esquire, or lower, are henceforth abolished. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Knox's spirit), that subjects should obey the magistrate only 'so long as his commandments, statutes, and empires, evidently repugn not with. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
(a) If justice be a constant and perpetual will to give to every person their own right: then to give or to will to give to any person that which is not their right, must repugn to justice. From Wordnik.com. [The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women] Reference
When stubbornly he did repugn the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry VI] Reference
To repugn, crofs or thwart one. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
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