REPUGNANTLY

Etymology

Adverb

repugnantly (comparative more repugnantly, superlative most repugnantly)

In a repugnant manner.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*pug"nant*ly, adv.

Definition: In a repugnant manner.

REPUGNANT

Re*pug"nant (-nant), a. Etym: [F. répugnant, or L. repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.]

Definition: Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.

Syn.

– Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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