abhorrence

[They were feeling] humility, self-condemnation, self-abhorrence.

For all his caustic polemics, Kristol had an abhorrence of finding himself in the minority.

He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.

We can imagine that, as soon as a printed book ceased to be a great rarity, it became an object of great abhorrence.