abhor
verb (used with object)
to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
will abhor
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future tenseof abhor.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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It really matters whether we as a public will abhor and condemn political violence when we see it as opposed to just be silent.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2023
"When this report is declassified, people will abhor what they read," Mr Udall told Esquire magazine.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2014
If Massachusetts abhors slavery, how long will it be before she will abhor slaveholders?
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
Upon the other, we treat them as subjects; we govern them, and not they themselves; they will abhor us as masters, and break off from us in defiance.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The reproach hurled against colored women from such sources reminds us very much of the lines in Butler’s Hudibras: The selfsame thing they will abhor, One way, and long another for.
From A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 1 by Kelly Miller
