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See also: révulsion

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle French révulsion and partly from Latin revulsiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈvʌlʃən/, /ɹəˈvʌlʃən/
  • Hyphenation: re‧vul‧sion

Noun

revulsion (usually uncountable, plural revulsions)

  1. Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
  2. A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
  3. (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
  4. (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
    • c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown , “Sect X”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton ; and Mr. Morphew , published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 91:
      To run on in deſpight of the Revulſions and Pul-backs of ſuch Remora’s aggravates our tranſgreſſions.
    • 1858, “Our Window”, in Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, volume 6, page 329, column 1:
      The recent financial revulsion has revealed the feeble basis on which credit now stands,
  5. (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.

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References

  1. ^ revulsion, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.