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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

2. (v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

Greek

1692. emeo -- to vomit
... 1692 -- properly, vomit (); (figuratively) repulsed, showing utter rejection (desiring
total separation); "to reject with extreme disgust" (, 6, 321). ...
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1609. ekptuo -- to spit out, to spurn
... 4429 , "spit") -- properly, spit (completely, with revulsion) because distasteful,
ie (thoroughly separate from); reject , with utter disgust (used only in Gal ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2214. zara -- loathsome thing
... loathsome. From zuwr (in the sense of estrangement) (compare zarah); disgust --
loathsome. see HEBREW zuwr. see HEBREW zarah. 2213, 2214. zara. 2215 . ...
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Library

Love of Religion, a New Nature.
... To be dead to sin, is to feel a disgust at it. We know what is meant by
disgust. Take, for instance, the case of a sick man, when ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol vii/sermon xiii love of religion.htm

Whether Likeness is a Cause of Pleasure?
... Objection 3: Further, those who are satiated with certain delights, derive not pleasure
but disgust from them; as when one is satiated with food. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether likeness is a cause 2.htm

Evidences of Regeneration.
... of sin. And often the sensibility of sinners, as well as of saints, is filled
with deep disgust and loathing in view of sin. I know ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxix evidences of regeneration.htm

The Final Disillusion
... his friend disapproved of. Some time earlier, at Carthage, Augustin had filled
him with disgust of the circus. But hardly was Alypius ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/ii the final disillusion.htm

Ridicule of the Statues Erected by the Greeks.
... One ought to turn away with disgust from one who bore off the fruits of great
incontinence, and whom the Romans compared to a sow, which also on a like account ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter xxxiv ridicule of the statues.htm

To Daniella of Orvieto Clothed with the Habit of St. Dominic
... receive, not the payment, but the pledge"not waiting to receive it till the enduring
life, where is life without death, satiety without disgust, and hunger ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to daniella of orvieto clothed.htm

Of True Humility, and How Abbot Serapion Exposed the Mock Humility ...
... Whereupon the other was filled with such vexation and disgust that he could not
hide by his looks the annoyance which he felt in his heart. ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xi of true humility.htm

Impressive Phrases
... discrimination, acuteness, insight, and judgment. disgust, distaste, loathing,
and abhorrence. ... dread, disgust, repugnance, and dreariness. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

The Imagination.
... reports; it seizes with avidity on the things that please it, but scarcely is it
in possession of the sought for objects when it abandons them with disgust. ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter x the imagination.htm

Useless Sacrifice
... You ask, with astonishment and disgust, how comes that there? and are told,
to your fresh astonishment and disgust, that that is ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xxxvi useless sacrifice.htm

Thesaurus

Disgust (18 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as
of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often ...
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Loathe (19 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for; to
hate. ... 3. (vi) To feel disgust or nausea. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Disgusted (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Disgust. Multi-Version Concordance
Disgusted (7 Occurrences). Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah ...
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Abhor (23 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To fill with horror or disgust. ... 4. (vi) To shrink back with horror,
disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with. Int. ...
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Surfeit (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety. ... 7. (vt) To fill to satiety and disgust;
to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Disgusting (149 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disgust. 2. (a.) That causes disgust; sickening; offensive;
revolting. Multi-Version Concordance Disgusting (149 Occurrences). ...
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Kibroth-hattaavah (5 Occurrences)
... which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at
the intercession of Moses (Numbers 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the ...
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Kibrothhattaavah (5 Occurrences)
... which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ceased at
the intercession of Moses (Numbers 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the ...
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Odious (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive;
disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. ...
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Overturning (14 Occurrences)
... on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies
on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust. ...
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Bible Concordance

Disgust (18 Occurrences)

Luke 6:22 Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.
(BBE)

Exodus 7:18 And the fish in the Nile will come to destruction, and the river will send up a bad smell, and the Egyptians will not be able, for disgust, to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking.
(BBE)

Leviticus 26:11 And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.
(BBE)

Leviticus 26:30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
(BBE)

Numbers 11:20 But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 32:19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 13:13 What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you.
(BBE)

Psalms 78:49 He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.
(BBE)

Psalms 89:38 But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.
(BBE)

Psalms 119:158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
(See RSV)

Psalms 119:163 I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.
(BBE)

Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
(BBE)

Jeremiah 14:21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 16:45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 23:17 The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:18 So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:22 For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;
(BBE RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 23:28 For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust:
(BBE RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Disgust

Related Terms

Loathe (19 Occurrences)

Disgusted (7 Occurrences)

Abhor (23 Occurrences)

Surfeit (1 Occurrence)

Disgusting (149 Occurrences)

Kibroth-hattaavah (5 Occurrences)

Kibrothhattaavah (5 Occurrences)

Odious (9 Occurrences)

Overturning (14 Occurrences)