abhor
Pronunciation Verb
Synonyms
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Pronunciation Verb
abhor (abhors, present participle abhorring; past and past participle abhorred)
- (transitive) To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
- 1611, Romans 12:9, Authorized King James Version:
- Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
- 1611, Romans 12:9, Authorized King James Version:
- (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 17th century.]
- c. 1604 William Shakespeare, Othello, act 4, scene 1:
- It does abhor me now I speak the word.
- c. 1604 William Shakespeare, Othello, act 4, scene 1:
- (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
- (transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
- c. 1613 William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 2, scene 4:
- I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge.
- c. 1613 William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 2, scene 4:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; construed with from. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
- To abhor from those vices.
- c. 1644, John Milton, "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", Book II, Chap. 7.
- Either then the law by harmless and needful dispenses, which the gospel is now made to deny, must have anticipated and exceeded the grace of the gospel, or else must be found to have given politic and superficial graces without real pardon, saying in general, “do this and live,” and yet deceiving and damning underhand with unsound and hollow permissions; which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law, as hath been shewed.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.]
Conjugation of abhor
| infinitive | (to) abhor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | abhor | abhored | |
| 2nd-person singular | * abhor, abhorest* | abhored, abhoredst* | |
| 3rd-person singular | abhors, abhoreth* | abhored#English|abhored | |
| plural | abhor | ||
| subjunctive | abhor | ||
| imperative | abhor | — | |
| participle> participles | abhoring | abhored | |
| * Archaic or obsolete. | |||
- (to regard with horror or detestation) seeSynonyms en
- French: avoir horreur, abhorrer
- German: verabscheuen
- Italian: aborrire, abominare
- Portuguese: abominar, detestar
- Russian: ненави́деть
- Spanish: aborrecer, detestar, abominar
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