abhorrence
[ab-hawr-uhns, -hor-]
- a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome.
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odium, repugnance, enmity, hate, horror, malice, detestation, hatred, loathing, revulsionExamples from the Web for abhorrence
Contemporary Examples of abhorrence
For all his caustic polemics, Kristol had an abhorrence of finding himself in the minority.
Historical Examples of abhorrence
There was accusation, denunciation, abhorrence in the cashier's gaze.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
They formed my character, and filled me with an abhorrence of evil-doers.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
He took it and cast it back to me in abhorrence and contempt, with all the strength he could muster.
The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Bronte
And Plato might also have found that the intuition of evil may be consistent with the abhorrence of it.
The RepublicPlato
Every ragged Moor in the streets greeted them with exclamations of menace and abhorrence.
The ScapegoatHall Caine
abhorrence
- a feeling of extreme loathing or aversion
- a person or thing that is loathsome
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