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Abhor v. t. (past & past part. abhorred; pres. part. abhorring)

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."

To fill with horror or disgust. (Obs.) "It doth abhor me now I speak the word."

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... very moment, straight in front of you, you would fall down on your face before Him, and you would cry to Him as Job did, "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee; wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." [Footnote: ...

— The One Great Reality • Louisa Clayton

... her age, crying three whole days and half nights over it; but I sadly overrated her sensibility. Her letter to me contained a summary, abusive criticism of "Mathilde" as a book, and ended by presenting to me one of those ludicrous images which I abhor, because, while they destroy every serious or elevated impression, they are so absurd that one cannot defend one's self from the "idiot laughter" they excite, and leave one no associations but grinning ones with one's romantic ideals. Her ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... language used in the Kentucky resolutions and by the New England Federalists during the war of 1812, was quick and positive. The legislatures of the Southern states, while condemning the tariff, repudiated the step which South Carolina had taken. Georgia responded: "We abhor the doctrine of nullification as neither a peaceful nor a constitutional remedy." Alabama found it "unsound in theory and dangerous in practice." North Carolina replied that it was "revolutionary in character, subversive of the Constitution of the ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... "'I loath, abhor, my very soul with strong disgust is stirred, when e're I see, or hear, or tell ov the ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... this to fill space (though I believe that Nature does abhor a vacuum), but to prove that my reply and my thanks are sent to you by the earliest leisure I have, though that is but a very contracted opportunity. If I did not think you a good-tempered and truth-loving man, I should not tell you that (spite of the great knowledge, store of facts, ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

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