abhorrer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who abhors.

   • Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time.
   • Hate, detester, abhorrer. Enemy, ennemi. With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.
2. 2

   A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to…

   A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.

   • Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer[…]
   • Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
   • He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.

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