repulsiveness

  • 91repulsive — adj. 1 causing aversion or loathing; loathsome, disgusting. 2 Physics exerting repulsion. 3 archaic (of behaviour etc.) cold, unsympathetic. Derivatives: repulsively adv. repulsiveness n. Etymology: F reacutepulsif ive or f. REPULSE …

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  • 92FLY — (Heb. זְבוּב), which occurs in an analogous form in other Semitic languages, refers mainly to the housefly (Musca domestica) A dead fly turns foul anything it falls into (Eccles. 10:1). Among the visitations against which public prayer was… …

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