Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
repellency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
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- noun Alternative form of
repellency .
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Examples
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Go enlist Ducky, with your natural water repellence try the Navy.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Go enlist Ducky, with your natural water repellence try the Navy.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Go enlist Ducky, with your natural water repellence try the Navy.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Go enlist Ducky, with your natural water repellence try the Navy.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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For along with their genuine attractiveness was a repellence of equal proportion, a dichotomy borne from power's temptation to encourage inbreeding and fealty to the mythos writ upon the nation's psyche.
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The carved courts of Mitla, with a hard, sharp-angled, intricate fascination, but the fascination of fear and repellence.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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If by harmonizing the distorted lines of an ugly body with each other, and by enhancing the given purity and expressiveness of his material, the artist can create a beauty of form overlying the repellence of the subject, and if he can make us feel the tragedy or pathos of age and disease, no one can gainsay his work.
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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For a space she looked at him with cold repellence, eyes black as night.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott
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Any attempt at drawing from him some facts as to the history of the villa was received with a grave and frigid repellence that baffled us; and we were forced to say _addio_ with our hunger for some explanation of the events of the night still unsatisfied.
Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902
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As she drew near he advanced, hat in hand, his face uplifted in his most winning smile -- savoring more of welcome than of repellence.
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