What is "abhor"

Usage examples of "abhor".

They abjured and abhorred the name of Roman citizens, which had formerly excited the ambition of mankind.

CDs would abhor an androgynous society because it would destroy the very thing they seek: the experience of being womanlike.

Ben Aboo, their Basha, was a good, humane man, who was often driven to do that which his soul abhorred.

Somehow this brought home to her for the first time the sheer force of the Multiplier migration, its quality of being a cascading explosion of thistledown birling through and filling and abhorring the vacuum.

None was of any color worth boasting about, and the insignificant differences of hue served only as one more basis for their abhorring each other.

The cloaking device already had cost years of her life, years spent pretending to be everything she abhorred.

Peter could not have been aware of the fact that, though it is sometimes necessary to reward treachery, the traitor himself is always abhorred and despised.

Republican elitists abhor demagogic appeals to working-class Democrats.

Astonished at his speech and at his proposal, which seemed to me a lure and made me fear a world of trouble which I always abhorred, struck by the strange idea of that man who, thinking that I would easily fall into the snare, gave me the preference over so many other persons whom he certainly knew better than me, I did not hesitate to tell him that I would never accept his offer.

She abhorred sin, because she was obliged to purge herself of it by confession under pain of everlasting damnation, and she did not want to be damned.

Romans abhorred eunuchs, flagellatory rites, and what was considered religious barbarism.

Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.

The young man looks only to the present, believes that the sky will always smile upon him, and laughs at philosophy as it vainly preaches of old age, misery, repentance, and, worst of all, abhorred death.

British clergy incessantly labored to eradicate the Pelagian heresy, which they abhorred, as the peculiar disgrace of their native country.

I detest, abhor, and swoon at the very word business, though no less than four letters of my very short sirname are in it.