Repulsion
[rɪ'pʌlʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'pʌlʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand.
(noun.) the force by which bodies repel one another.
Typist: Shane--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
(n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
(n.) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.
Editor: Nettie
Examples
- A stagnant, sickening oil with some natural repulsion in it that makes them both shudder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Repulsion, as well as attraction, plays a part among the particles of matter disseminated in space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had to return to the conception of the individual particles of oxygen, nitrogen, and water, each a center of repulsion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her repulsion was getting stronger. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her impression now was one of offence and repulsion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gerald, in his father's presence, stiffened with repulsion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was so honest, that her arts and cajoleries did not affect him, and he shrank from her with instinctive repulsion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She felt like a beetle toiling in the duSt. She was filled with repulsion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was swinging quite close to the controlling devices, so I reached out to the lever that directed the rays of repulsion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every particle of air, therefore, will bear any load inferior to the force of these repulsions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Rosalie