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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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"Abhor" Quotes from Famous Books

... my disappointment has made me sour, so think no more of what I have said. I am going now to do what I abhor. Going South to try to find a school. It's awful. But I don't want any one to pity me. There are several thousands of us ...

— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... what was termed his "tail." Finally, they denounced him as a coward, and the abettor therefore of a cowardly policy: that being afraid to place himself at the head of his armed countrymen, he affected to abhor bloodshed, and held out a hope which he knew to be delusive—that Ireland could conquer the restoration of her legislature by moral, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery; but while they relieved me of one difficulty, they brought on another even more painful than the one of which I was relieved. The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest ...

— The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave • Frederick Douglass

... the tone the other took with him. "But to relieve your mind of such doubts as I see you entertain, I can assure you that it is out of no motives of weakness that I boggle at this combat. Though I confess that I am no ferrailleur, and that I abhor the duel as a means of settling a difference just as I abhor all things that are stupid and insensate, yet I am not the man to shirk an encounter where an encounter is forced upon me. But in this affair—" ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... abhor the glad tidings of the Gospel and the blessings that go with it? Because the world is the devil's. Under his direction the world persecutes the Gospel and would if it could nail again Christ, the Son of God, to the Cross although He gave Himself into ...

— Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians • Martin Luther

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