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Definition of Abhorring
1. n. Detestation.
Definition of Abhorring
1. Noun. Detestation. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of abhor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abhorring
1. abhor [v] - See also: abhor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abhorring
Literary usage of Abhorring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Yet his was essentially a peaceable nature, abhorring strife. He promoted the
reprinting at Basel of Luther's writings, and had friendly relations with that ..."
2. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"MEAGHER ON abhorring THE SWORD1 (1846) Born in 1823, died in 1867; Identified
with the Irish Repeal Association in 1844; a member of the war directory of ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... man's daughter in the town, whom he loved, and lived with long after, abhorring
the very name and sight of the first. After the death of Lucretia, ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... motioned him to another honest man's daughter in the town, whom he loved, and
lived with long after, abhorring the very name and sight of the first. ..."
5. The Modern Reader's Bible: The Books of the Bible with Three Books of the by Richard Green Moulton (1907)
"... trans- Judgement gressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither
shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. ..."
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