abhor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable

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

   • I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
   • Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
   • Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.
2. 2

   To fill with horror or disgust.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To turn aside or avoid

   To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.

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   1. 4

      To protest against

      To protest against; to reject solemnly.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards)

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

   3. 6

      Differ entirely from.

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