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/rivˈoʊltɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Revolt v. t.

To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. (Obs.)

To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings. "This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds." "To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason."

Revolt v. i. (past & past part. revolted; pres. part. revolting)

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. "But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free." "His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time."

Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. "Our discontented counties do revolt." "Plant those that have revolted in the van."

To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

adjective

Revolting adj. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.

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"Revolting" Quotes from Famous Books

... notable, he was in every case ousted from his charge. The odium attached to his name was moreover increased by the fact, that his evidence in two cases of malicious prosecution had been proved false; for which he had been tried as a perjurer. Deprived of his chaplaincy for a revolting act of profligacy, driven from congregations he had scandalized, homeless and destitute, he in an evil hour betook himself to Dr. Ezrael Tonge, to whom he had long been known, and besought compassion ...

— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy

... could go no farther. The sublimity of death in a dying Saviour, the expiring God-likeness of Jesus of Nazareth was not there. The artist had caught no heavenly inspiration from his theme. All was coarse, harsh, and revolting to a sensitive mind; and Flemming turned away with a shudder, as he saw this fearful image gazing at him, with its fixed ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... quite clearly understand that all his sins and—which was much more to him—all his loves had been fully discussed between his friend and Miss Waddington—between his Caroline and another man. To the pride of his heart nothing could be more revolting. It was as though his dearest possession had been ransacked in his absence, and rifled and squandered by the very guardian to whom he had left the key. There had been sore misgivings, sore differences ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... was intensely powerful; the groans and exclamations of some of the men were painful in the extreme; but my feelings were still more agonized when I saw the poor creatures driven, by the want of water, to drink their own ——, the last sad and revolting ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

... revolting sight to see a King imprisoned for debt, and all gentlemen, all men of feeling, would ...

— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)

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