Definition of repell

(Paul Ramsey, War and the Christian Conscience. Durham,...)

Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great , or evil repelled sufficiently grave , to warrant the destruction of mankind by man 's own action .

Not to repel injury and uphold and improve pax-ordo means not simply to accept the misshapen order and injustice that challenges it at the moment , but also to start down the steep slope along which justice can find no place whereon to stand .

The only contrary action , in_the_future as in_the_past , runs the risk of war ; and , now and in_the_future unlike in_the_past , any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of_it will , by human_action , render this planet less habitable by the human_race .

(Sexology, 28:1...)

She learns how to relax them to accept - instead of contracting them to repel the entering object .