Usage examples for repugnance:

• In a modest restaurant, where only a few plain citizens were drinking coffee, he hurriedly ate his dinner, and then as the seats were beginning to fill with afternoon guests, he hastily departed, whither he did not himself know; he was only vaguely conscious of a repugnance to appearing in broad daylight, in so helpless a condition, before the brother to whom the preceding night he had frankly confessed his state of mind. "The Children of the World" – Paul Heyse

• Elsie's eyes sparkled; books were her greatest treasures; but feeling an instinctive repugnance to taking a gift from one whom she could neither respect nor love, she made an effort to decline it, though at the same time thanking the lady warmly for her kind intentions. "Elsie Dinsmore" – Martha Finley

• The proposal was a good one, so it was accepted, although Padre Salvi and Don Custodio showed some repugnance "The Reign of Greed Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'" – Jose Rizal

• I had been used to the pleasures of variety, to the luxury and stir of life in Paris; it was only when I had overcome my first repugnance that I saw the advantages of this existence; how it lent itself to continuity of thought and to involuntary meditation; how a life in which the heart has undisturbed sway seems to widen and grow vast as the sea. "The Country Doctor" – Honore de Balzac