Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
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To sob with convulsions.
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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…
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See Offense.
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Alt. of Offence
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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
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To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!
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To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
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Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
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To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
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Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
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To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
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To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
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Sleight.
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To sob with convulsions.
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