Revulsion

Though I waste watches framing words to fetter
     Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss,
Out of the night there looms a sense 'twere better
     To fail obtaining whom one fails to miss.

For winning love we win the risk of losing,
     And losing love is as one's life were riven;
It cuts like contumely and keen ill-using
     To cede what was superfluously given.

Let me then feel no more the fateful thrilling
     That devastates the love-worn wooer's frame,
The hot ado of fevered hopes, the chilling
     That agonizes disappointed aim!
So may I live no junctive law fulfilling,
     And my heart's table bear no woman's name.

Re*vul"sion (?), n. [F. r'evulsion, L. revulsio, fr. revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere to pull. Cf. Convulse.]

1.

A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.

SSir T. Brovne.

2.

A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.

A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed. Macaulay.

3. Med.

The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.

© Webster 1913.