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repugner (s.xiii2/4)
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repugner (s.xiii2/4)

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repoiner;  repunger,  repungner,  respugner  (repupuer  TLL ii 17)  
  FEW:  repugnare 10,280a Gdf:  repugner 7,75a GdfC:  repugner 10,553a TL: repugnier 8,958 DEAF:  repugnier  DMF:  répugner  TLF:  répugner  OED:  repugn v.  MED:  repugnen v.  DMLBS:  repugnare 2781c

v.trans.

to oppose, fight against: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiv1 )  Treytoz les ha gitez [...] En un fluyve [...] Et quant li cheti vodrent resordre contramont, Li deable i corroent, qui repunger (var. (Ch: c.1275) replunger) les font  Purg S Pat berol 30.448
( 1315 )  le dit counte de Ulvestere prist la charge sur luy pur contre ester et repugner voz ditz enemys d’Escoce  Affairs of Ireland 76
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  qe [...] vous soiez trovee Deu repungner (Latin: Deo repugnare)  Actes (A) 364b

v.intrans.

to be contrary, inconsistent: 
( 1312-13 )  issint vostre demustrance repoyne en ly meme  YBB Ed II xiii 74
( c.1339 )  et si tiel deforceour vient a cele tierce court ou la s[ec]ounde, eit ses destresches quites, mais respugne del forcement a la tierce [court e a la partie] de sa pleint  Bor Cust i 258

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See also:

poigner1  repugnant  repugnance 
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