repugnancy

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repugnancy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Repugnance \Re*pug"nance\ (-nans), Repugnancy \Re*pug"nan*cy\
     (-nan-s?), n. [F. r['e]pugnance, L. repugnantia.]
     The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition;
     contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism;
     aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions,
     principles, qualities, and the like.
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           That which causes us to lose most of our time is the
           repugnance which we naturally have to labor. --Dryden.
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           Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
           Without repugnancy.                      --Shak.
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     Syn: Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy;
          hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety;
          inconsistency. See Dislike.
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repugnancy - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  REPUGNANCY, contracts. That which in a contract, is inconsistent with 
  something already contracted for; as, for example, where a man by deed 
  grants twenty acres of land, excepting one, this latter clause is repugnant, 
  and is to be rejected. But if a farm or tract of land is conveyed by general 
  terms, in exception of any number of acres, or any particular lot, it is not 
  repugnant, but valid. 4 Pick. 54; Vide 3 Pick. 272; 6 Cowen, 677. 
  
  

  REPUGNANCY, pleading. Where the material facts stated in a declaration or 
  other pleading, are inconsistent one with another for example, where in an 
  action of trespass, the plaintiff declared for taking and carrying away 
  certain timber, lying in a certain place, for the completion of a house then 
  lately built; this declaration was considered bad, for repugnancy; for the 
  timber could not be for the building of a house already built. 1 Salk. 213. 
       2. Repugnancy of immaterial facts, and what is merely redundant, and 
  which need not have been put into the sentence, and contradicting what was 
  before alleged, will not, in general, vitiate the pleading. Gilb. C. P. 131; 
  Co. Litt. 303 b; 10 East, R. 142; 1 Chit. Pl. 233. See Lawes, Pl. 64; Steph. 
  Pl. 378; Com. Dig. Abatement H 6; 1 Vin. Ab. 36; 19 Id. 45; Bac. Ab. 
  Amendment, &c. E 2 Bac. Ab. Pleas, Ac. I 4 Vin. Ab. h.t.