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Abhor

//əbˈhɔː// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward. transitive

    "I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams."

  2. 2
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  3. 3
    To fill with horror or disgust. impersonal, obsolete, transitive

    "But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me."

  4. 4
    To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. transitive
  5. 5
    To protest against; to reject solemnly. obsolete, transitive

    "I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth."

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  1. 6
    To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from. intransitive, obsolete

    "Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme."

  2. 7
    Differ entirely from. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).

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