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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)
- Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
- (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.
- (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
1837, L E L, “The Result”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. In Three Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 234:We resolve, and our resolutions melt away with a word and a look: we are the toys of an emotion. And yet I think Norbourne was right in his sudden revulsion in favour of his uncle. We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 108–109:A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the parliament and in the country, followed.
Translations
abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
sudden violent feeling of disgust
treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation
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