counterattractive

He saw the relations among prices of land, corn, flour, and bread as dependent on “growth of the power of association” which makes “circulation” more rapid “as the attractive and counterattractive forces increase in their intensity.”

1966, William Robert Catton, From animistic to naturalistic sociology, McGraw-Hill, page 285

Brian Harrison rechnet in Drink and the Victorians die MH zurecht zu den “counterattractive influences which fostered sobriety during the 19th Century”¹⁰⁰ und betont wie schon die MH-Manager, daß die MH keine rein männliche Domäne war wie das Pub, sondern Familienunterhaltung bot und damit eine wichtige Forderung der Temperenzler erfüllte.

1984, Ulrich Schneider, Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs, 1850–1920, volume 24, M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 75, →ISBN

As John Rule has observed, in this context Methodism must be considered a counterattractive, as well as a counteractive, force, for it provided its own alternative, “improving,” “respectable” recreations, which were assimilated into the calendars of local society.⁵⁵

2002, Mark A. Noll, editor, God and Mammon: Protestants, money, and the market, 1790–1860, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109, →ISBN