Abhorrence
[əb'hɒr(ə)ns] or [əb'hɔrəns]
Definition
(n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Abomination, horror, detestation, hatred, loathing, disgust, antipathy, aversion.
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Examples
- I cannot think of it without abhorrence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They formed my character, and filled me with an abhorrence of evil-doers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am content to suffer alone, while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mr. Lorry immediately remembered, and regarded his new visitor with an undisguised look of abhorrence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And Plato might also have found that the intuition of evil may be consistent with the abhorrence of it. Plato. The Republic.
- He fell backward in his chair, and, clasping his hands together, gazed on the apparition with a mingled look of abhorrence and fear. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It has given me such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one for all the world. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I confess, replied Elinor, that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In the austere system, on the contrary, those excesses are regarded with the utmost abhorrence and detestation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The fright and abhorrence that Mrs Betty Higden smoothed out of her strong face as she ended this diversion, showed how seriously she had meant it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But my poor child is going through a phase of exaltation, of abhorrence of the world. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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