self-abhorrence
- a word derived from abhorrence.
Example Sentences
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Who could surpass him in self-abhorrence and exaltation of God's cause?
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
Not very often, it is true, for I don't understand the self-abhorrence that I occasionally see long drawn out in the strictly private printed diaries of good dead people.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
He looked at the man's cocked hat and sword with tears in his eyes; he hoped for some practical application of the wrath of heaven, something that would express violently his dead-weight of self-abhorrence.
From Madame De Mauves by James, Henry
They looked inward with a self-abhorrence, now inseparable from their existence.
From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
To say that poor Ebony was filled with horror, as well as shame and self-abhorrence, is but a feeble statement.
From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.
