Repulses
[rɪ'pʌlsiz]
Examples
- How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There were heavy attacks on either side that ended in bloody repulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The little man seemed rather baffled by these several repulses, and a short consultation took place between him and the two plump gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She knows it, Kantos Kan, and repulses me only because she is promised to Sab Than. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Edited by Caleb