abhorred

American

[ab-hawrd] / æbˈhɔrd /

adjective

regarded with extreme disgust or hatred; detested; loathed.

Toothache is one of the most abhorred forms of bodily pain.
After the first free election and the departure of the abhorred dictator, a ray of hope began to shine.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of abhor.

Other Word Forms

unabhorred

adjective

Etymology

Origin of abhorred

First recorded in 1530–40; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

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O dark cloud, descendingI 1 Unutterably on me! invincible, Abhorred, borne onward by too sure a wind.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Abhorred and circumvented as he was, old master, having the power, very easily took revenge.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

Abhorred and intolerable certainty succeeded to the doubts which had haunted my mind.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

Death writes a reeling line along the snows, Where under frozen mists they may be tracked, Who men and elements provoked to foes, And Gods: they were of god and beast compact: Abhorred of all.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George

His Queen, that portent crowned, She that with name of wife was yet no wife, Abhorred that Cross and feared.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

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