Definition of "repulsions" [repulsions]

• Plural form of repulsion. (noun)

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• "Let us, therefore, consider these pressures and tensions, or so-called repulsions and attractions that exist in this electro-magnetic Aether from the atomic standpoint, and by so doing try to realize how it is that one body, as the sun, acts upon another body, as the earth, through the intervening medium, the Aether."
• "While the government has the preponderance in hardware, they lack the morale to carry out any major attacks, as we are seeing in the multiple repulsions of their attacks on the towns around Tripoli, said Gary Li."
• "Deneuve plays Carol, a nervous young manicurist who goes about her days in the salon, quietly tending to bossy old ladies 'fleshy cuticles; but eventually finds herself languishing about her apartment, where, her pathological shyness, sexual repression and repulsions spiral into madness."