repugnancia

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See also: repugnância

Portuguese

Noun

repugnancia f (plural repugnancias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of repugnância.
    • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:
      Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu [...] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.
      There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done .

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin repugnantia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /repuɡˈnanθja/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /repuɡˈnansja/
  • Rhymes: -anθja
  • Rhymes: -ansja
  • Syllabification: re‧pug‧nan‧cia

Noun

repugnancia f (plural repugnancias)

  1. repugnancy
  2. disgust
    Synonyms: asco, desazón, indignidad

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