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Definition of Abhor

1. Verb. Find repugnant. "Sam and Sue abhor the movie "; "She abhors cats"

Definition of Abhor

1. v. t. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.

2. v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with

Definition of Abhor

1. Verb. (transitive) To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To fill with horror or disgust. ¹

3. Verb. To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive canon law obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with ''from''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abhor

1. to loathe [v -HORRED, -HORRING, -HORS] - See also: loathe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abhor

Literary usage of Abhor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"We abhor death, pain, and grief; all, " Omnibus una meis certa medela mails ;" Why shouldst not thou then say with old Simeon since thou art so well ..."

2. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"And I do utterly abhor and deny the pope's power and supremacy, and all his superstitions and idolatrous inventions ; and do affirm, that he hath no power ..."

3. Publications (1848)
"... massacres, be disarmed: again, that no persons, papists, Jews, Turks, or Indians, be disturbed at their worship, a thing which the very Indians abhor to ..."

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