24 adjectives to describe repulsion

For want of a better name, I shall call this excess of repulsive effect the "electro-inductive repulsion" of the coils or circuits.

He might be a very respectable man, but somehow, Andy did not know why, there was something in his manner which inspired a little repulsion.

There are many natures which can never approach within a certain distance, and which, when any irregular motive impels them towards contact, seem to start back from each other by some invincible repulsion.

magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation; antigravity.

The De Grafs lived en suite at the hotel, for Beth had determined to surround her Sybaritic mother with all attainable luxury, since the child frequently reproached herself with feeling a distinct repulsion for the poor woman.

Tell me!is she alive?' His eyes starting out of his headhis crimson facehis anguish, seemed to affect the other with indescribable repulsion.

I cannot perceive in observing my children, that they exhibit the slightest repugnance or dislike to these swarthy dependents of theirs, which they surely would do if, as is so often pretended, there is an inherent, irreconcilable repulsion on the part of the white towards the negro race.

An innate repulsion, now increased by suspicion, made him distrust any act pressed upon him by that man, especially when urged in concert with the marchesa.

The instruments of Man's ascent to divinity may arouse his instinctive repulsions, dislikes, and destructive passions.

The astonishment, the intuitive repulsion, the consciousness of what he had done, betokened by the instant look of the one man, and the helpless, mute "How could you?" that seemed spoken in the strange, uprolled, one-sided expression of the other,these involuntarily-met regards made a brief concurrence at once sad and irresistibly funny, as so many things in this strange life are.

I cannot perceive in observing my children, that they exhibit the slightest repugnance or dislike to these swarthy dependents of theirs, which they surely would do if, as is so often pretended, there is an inherent, irreconcilable repulsion on the part of the white towards the negro race.

I asked in anguish, as I caught a look on the coroner's face of irrepressible repulsion and disgust, slight and soon gone but unmistakable so long as it lasted.

How should he not be strong, while every vein felt filled with molten lead; while some unseen power seemed not so much to attract him upwards, as to drive him by magical repulsion from all that he had left below?

Taking a few of these cylinders at random from a greater number, he was much perplexed to find that they did not all come to rest equatorially, as well-behaved bars of diamagnetic bismuth should do, though, if subjected to the action of a single magnetic pole, they did show this diamagnetic character by their marked repulsion.

The measurement is made by the mutual repulsion of quartz fibres acting against a springthe extent of the repulsion is very clearly shown against a scale magnified by a telescope.

The thought of fondling any other woman filled Peter with a sudden, sharp repulsion.

She understood, as never before, the singular fascination and as singular repulsion which she had long felt in Elsie's presence.

The thought of fondling any other woman filled Peter with a sudden, sharp repulsion.

And when to the fatigue and strain of the day is addedas is still quite often the caseblank though uneasy ignorance as to what marriage involves, or the thunderbolt of knowledge (sic) launched by the bride's mother the night before, or the morning of the day itself, it would be difficult with the utmost deliberation and skill better to ensure absolute repulsion and horror on the part of the bride.

Every new form of man establishes another current in those reciprocations of thought, in those electrical streams of sympathy,of wholesome attraction and wholesome repulsion,by which the intellectual life is kindled and quickened.

They point out that the apparent repulsion of diamagnetic substances is due to the fact that they are less paramagnetic than the oxygen of the air in which they are suspended.

The deflective repulsion exhibited by B will, when its circuit is completed by the commutator and brushes, as described, act to place its plane at right angles to that of C; but being then open-circuited, its momentum carries it to the position just past parallelism, at which moment it is again short-circuited, and so on.

Both brow and hand concentric denote repulsion or retention; this is always the case with a door.

Fierce repulsion and retaliation were the only means he would have recourse to in his mode of treating them; and the consequence was, his inspiring the natives with a hatred of him, and a desire of vengeance for his manifold cruelties towards them, which was sure, sooner or later, to end in his destruction.

24 adjectives to describe  repulsion