Abhor
[əb'hɔː] or [əb'hɔr]
Definition
(verb.) find repugnant; 'I loathe that man'; 'She abhors cats'.
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Definition
(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.
(v. t.) To fill with horror or disgust.
(v. t.) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
(v. i.) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from, shudder at, view with horror.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, despise, dislike, eschew, nauseate
ANT:Love, admire, enjoy, approve, affect, covet, relish, crave, desire
Checker: Virgil
Definition
v.t. to shrink from with horror: to detest: to loathe:—pr.p. abhor′ring; pa.p. abhorred′.—ns. Abhor′rence extreme hatred; (obs.) Abhor′rency.—adj. Abhor′rent detesting; repugnant (with of).—ns. Abhor′rer one who abhors; Abhor′ring (B. and Shak.) object of abhorrence.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty will prove correct. To think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good intentions to others will subside into selfishness. For a young woman to dream that her lover abhors her, foretells that she will love a man who is in no sense congenial.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- Of all things I abhor a drunkard! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- How I do still abhor-- He ground his teeth and was silent: he arrested his step and struck his boot against the hard ground. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I abhor the subject. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I abhor it too, said he. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am very affectionate, and naturally honourable; because I abhor a lie! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror: I abhorred myself. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Abhorred spot! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I perceived, as the shape came nearer, (sight tremendous and abhorred! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Abhorred monster! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He will fail because human nature abhors the vacuum created by the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Descartes and Galileo had brought under criticism the ancient idea t hat nature abhors a vacuum. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nature abhors a mental vacuum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This I would not be prevailed on to accept, abhorring to cover myself with any thing that had been on the back of a _Yahoo_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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