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▪ I. reˈpelling, vbl. n.|rɪˈpɛlɪŋ|
[f. repel v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb.; repulse.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. xiv. (S.T.S.) I. 183 Valerius left þe said auctorite for [þe] Indignacioun þat he tuke in his mynde for þe repelling of his petitiouns. 1611Cotgr., Repoulsement, a repulsing, repelling. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. vi. §17. 103 To the repelling of a forraign enemy, they appoint a certain and limited return. 1719Quincy Phys. Dict. (1722) 381/1 By repelling is meant those Means which prevent such an Afflux of Fluid to any particular part, as would raise it into a Tumour.
▪ II. reˈpelling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That repels, in various senses of the vb.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 44 b/2 He is called the expulsive or repellinge ligature. 1611Cotgr., Repercussif, repercussiue, repelling. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II. s.v., In Mechanicks, where Attraction ceases to exert it self, a kind of repelling Force should succeed. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. iii, When the repelling Extremity points downwards, the Island mounts directly upwards. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 249, I ordered emollient and repelling Cataplasms to be applied. 1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 62 The feeling in the poet's mind changes..from the repelling to the engaging. 1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 296 When the two repelling poles are brought into contact.
Hence reˈpellingly adv., reˈpellingness.
1815Zeluca I. 371 She must behave almost repellingly to the two men of her acquaintance she most esteemed. 1863Thornbury True as Steel III. 230 The eyes no longer stared repellingly with a fixed and hard glance. 1895W. S. Lilly Four Humourists 66 Despite the repellingness of his style. |