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Abhor   /æbhˈɔr/   Listen
verb
Abhor  v. t.  (past & past part. abhorred; pres. part. abhorring)  
1.
To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. "Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."
2.
To fill with horror or disgust. (Obs.) "It doth abhor me now I speak the word."
3.
(Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. (Obs.) "I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge."
Synonyms: To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See Hate.



Abhor  v. i.  To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; with from. (Obs.) "To abhor from those vices." "Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law."






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"Abhor" Quotes from Famous Books



... he can put his feet, a carpet which will not spoil with tobacco ash, and a few tables and chairs scattered about just to hold a good supply of old magazines and newspapers handy for lighting his pipe. He wears those shaggy, unbrushed-looking clothes which all good women abhor. Worst of all, he is constantly getting imbued with new and fantastic ideas which cause him to live in a ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick

... expect to be treated otherwise than the rebellious house of Israel, and be made to feel in a very little while from this, all the horrors of a guilty conscience, urging you to do that which you now detest and abhor: even to come and bow at the feet of these very despised—as you are now disposed to term them—"door shutters," "mystery folks," "Judaizers," "feet washers," "deluded fanatics," &c. &c. See ...
— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates

... you know that I abhor arithmetical calculations; besides which, I have no faith in any propositions of a political economist which he cannot make out readily without all this elaborate machinery of tables and figures. ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, in honour preferring one another: not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing ...
— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England

... wonted vengeance on my cheek, Nor clear the shadow from my chin Till to the City I had been. Thus, horrid with a nascent beard, By chance through Wimpole Street I steered, Trusting therein to shun contempt Of who abhor a man unkempt. For like a mother-bird, who's caught The cant of modern woman's thought, My restless tie refused to sit, And restless fingers vainly sought To soothe the silkworm's stubborn toil. But only did its ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 • Various


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