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Definition of Abhors
1. abhor [v] - See also: abhor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abhors
Literary usage of Abhors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"Such was my life. But was it life, O my God ? CHAPTER III. Not even in Church
does he govern his desires; in the rhetoric school he abhors the doings of ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1870)
"11, de leg., absolutely forbids, Epictetus abhors. A horse that tills the 1 land
fed with chaff, an idle jade have provender in abundance; him that makes ..."
3. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... through the Gould & Curry Mine—"Nature abhors a Vacuum"— New Discoveries in
Nevada—The White Pine Mines and their Promise—A Warning to Brigham Young—How ..."