Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. Milton.
Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
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