Sentence examples for a revulsion of from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a revulsion of" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression is "a revulsion to" or "a revulsion against."
Example: "She felt a revulsion to the idea of harming innocent animals."
Alternatives: "a strong dislike for" or "a deep aversion to."

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Perhaps this caused a revulsion of feeling.

But, as Fanny Lefroy, one of her nieces, wrote, overnight she experienced a "revulsion of feeling".

Jefferson stated that White reluctantly supported the bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive".

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System 1 bestows us with an innate revulsion of rotting meat, allows us to speak our native language without thinking about it and gives babies the ability to recognise parents and distinguish between living and nonliving objects.

Her stories convey a hostility, even a revulsion, toward figures of masculine authority.

But why do the British have such a revulsion over the idea of eating horsemeat?

But what they're really about is the fascination and revulsion of a new generation of teenagers toward their parents.

She spent the rest of her childhood in prison, but her notoriety -- and the revulsion of a British public familiar with the particulars of her case -- never faded.

It had made it easy for Marx to fuse dispassionate analysis of the "system" with the moral revulsion of an Old Testament prophet against the "exploiters".

It serves people who have a pit-of-the-stomach revulsion of everyone around them who doesn't conform to their new ideal of a utopian south London.

It often carries a prominent bodily component featuring disgust and revulsion of the dehumanised others [ 22].

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