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Repulse   /ripˈəls/   Listen
verb
Repulse  v. t.  (past & past part. repulsed; pres. part. repulsing)  
1.
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. "Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend."
2.
To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.


noun
Repulse  n.  
1.
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back. "By fate repelled, and with repulses tired." "He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in the body."
2.
Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.





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"Repulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Washington. "Well, the only thing to do, now, is to keep constantly on the lookout and be ready all the time to repulse an attack." ...
— The Dare Boys of 1776 • Stephen Angus Cox
... the priesthood is imputed by Langbaine, and, I think, by Brown, to a repulse which he suffered when he solicited ordination; but he denies, in the preface to his Fables, that he ever designed to enter into the church; and such a denial he would not have hazarded, if he could have been ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... vindictiveness. When the fire was over, he joined his comrade. The favourable hour of the night suggested to them the possibility of some unlawful gain before daylight came. My fowlhouse stood in a tempting position, and still resenting his repulse during the evening, one of them proposed to operate upon my birds. I was believed to have gone to the rectory with Mr. Raunham. The other was disinclined to go, and the ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... momentary repulse, gathered itself anew, and, although knowing now that the Southern army could not be entrapped, drove again with all its might upon the positions around the church. They passed over the dead of the day before, and gathered increasing ...
— The Guns of Shiloh • Joseph A. Altsheler
... ambition to be hail fellow well met with his betters. But Mr. Touchwood was callous to the intended rebuke; he had lived too much at large upon the world, and was far too confident of his own merits, to take a repulse easily, or to permit his modesty to interfere with any ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott


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