a feeling of utter distaste or repugnance
a sudden or violent reaction or change
For many years we enacted a perfect farce of subserviency to the dicta of Great Britain. At last a revulsion of feeling, with self-disgust, necessarily ensued — Poe
in medicine, esp in former times, the process of drawing disease from one part of the body to another, e.g. by the use of counterirritants
revulsive /-siv/ adj
[Latin revulsion-, revulsio act of tearing away, from revellere to pluck away, from re- + vellere to pluck]