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- Latin · derived fromrepugnantia
- Middle English · inherited fromrepugnancie
- English todayrepugnancy
From Middle English repugnancie, from Latin repugnantia. By surface analysis, repugnant + -cy. Doublet of repugnance.
Words from the same roots
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