Repel
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late Middle English: from Latin repellere, from re- ‘back’ + pellere ‘to drive’.
wiktionary
From Middle English repellen, a borrowing from Old French*repeller, from Latin repellere(“to drive back”), from re-(“back”) + pellere(“to drive”). Doublet of repeal.
etymonline
repel (v.)
early 15c., "to drive away, remove, quench" (a sense now obsolete), from Old French repeller and directly from Latin repellere "to drive back," from re- "back" (see re-) + pellere "to drive, strike" (from PIE root *pel- (5) "to thrust, strike, drive").
The sense of "encounter (an invader, etc.) with effectual resistance, resist, oppose" is from mid-15c. The meaning "to affect (a person) with distaste or aversion" is by 1817. Related: Repelled; repelling.
