repugnances

I have little doubt that the 'repugnances' of 'Madame La Grandemain' were concerned with the bringing of Miss Walkinshaw to the Prince.

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

I give to that, I who have seen so many unions formed under celestial auspices only to be ruptured later, giving rise to hatreds that are well-nigh eternal, to repugnances that are unconquerable.

Ursula 2006

These widely diffused repugnances, fears and antagonisms were enhanced by the difficulties put in the way of aspirants to the Modern State

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

What if it should prove that you, who hold there is, are, by virtue of that opinion, a greater sceptic, and maintain more paradoxes and repugnances to Common Sense, than I who believe no such thing?

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

Such then are the repugnances of these things; and by his intermixing the praises of Callias, the son of Phaenippus, amidst the crimes and suspicions of the Alcmaeonidae, and joining to him his son

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Of course I recognised your father, Minnie,329 and many others, but you should never let your heroine die so miserably, because the reader goes away with a void in his heart, and you must never put all your repugnances in the first volume, for you choke off your reader. ...

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

But the rational justification of there being a rule is to be found in the full consequences of its observance, and not in nonrational reactions of horror, disgust, shame, and other emotional repugnances.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

But the attitude of a reflective man to these repugnances and prohibitions does not for this reason have to be a utilitarian one.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

Modern utilitarians thought that men have the possibility of indefinite improvement in their moral thinking, and that they were confined and confused by their innate endowments of moral repugnances and emotional admirations.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

And it seems certain that the repugnances and horror surrounding some moral prohibitions are sentiments that have both a biological and a social function.

A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973