abhorrence
IPA: ʌbhˈɔrʌns
noun
- Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing.
- (obsolete, historical) An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II.
- A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.
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Examples of "abhorrence" in Sentences
- The root of most people's kale abhorrence is texture.
- In the name of mercy, what has happened? cried Clara, shrinking in abhorrence from the ghastly woman.
- Now, we must prologue a body of this article by stating which abhorrence is aged shawl when it comes to me.
- They held adultery in abhorrence, and with the more reason as their marriages were dissolvable at pleasure.
- I held the tan-yard in abhorrence – to enter it made me ill for days; sometimes for months and months I never went near it.
- Yet the Hindus, I repeat, hold pederasty in abhorrence and are as much scandalised by being called Gánd-márá (anus-beater) or Gándú
- At the moment when despair was in her orphan heart, and her whole soul turned with abhorrence from the supposed De Valence, she met the eyes dearest to her on earth – those of indeed her father's friend!
- On the 29th May he reported a combination of the people headed by the Anti-convict Association "to hold in abhorrence any person who may aid the exiles in landing, and may have any communication with them whatever," and to stop the supply of stores to Government.
- Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp -- Not the tabernacle, of which a pattern had been given him, for it was not yet erected, but his own tent -- conspicuous as that of the leader -- in a part of which he heard cases and communed with God about the people's interests; hence called "the tabernacle of the congregation," and the withdrawal of which, in abhorrence from a polluted camp, was regarded as the first step in the total abandonment with which God had threatened them.
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