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verb

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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"Abhor" Quotes from Famous Books

... know," she said deliberately, "I am beginning to fear that you are obstinate, and I abhor obstinate people." ...

— The Holladay Case - A Tale • Burton E. Stevenson

... I know now that it has been long in incubation; you must remember that every bend and ordnance maps; every stream, however small, is known to the technical office, and the engineers civil and military. I abhor the project. It is to me a desecration, an infamy, a robbery; it will ruin the Valdedera from every point of view; but we can do nothing; this is what I implore you to realise. We are as helpless as one of your fowls when you cut its throat. Violence can only hurry ...

— The Waters of Edera • Louise de la Rame, a.k.a. Ouida

... stake your life, Monsieur Lacroix. As for me, I am an old man. The old are obstinate and selfish. I abhor the ...

— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... I live the life of other living creatures. But I am wasted by a strange and deadly disease. I can never lay hold of my own inspiration. My head is filled with music which is certainly by me, since I have never heard it before, but which still is not my own, which I despise and abhor: little, tripping flourishes and languishing ...

— Hauntings • Vernon Lee

... was incomparably the most drunk of the party, except perhaps his antagonist the Laird of Balmawhapple. However, having received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded—'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulce causa, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the influence of 'Liber Pater'; nor would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

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