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Meanings of abhorrence in English

Portuguese
aversão
Catalan
repugnància
Spanish
horror

Hate coupled with disgust.

      aversão
      Usage of abhorrence in English
      1
      The violin is an object of particular abhorrence to the Free Gospellers.
      The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
      2
      It was time to get past her personal abhorrence at his actions.
      The bourne objective
      3
      Gavin was known amongst his friends for his abhorrence of tiny females.
      Poison or Protect
      4
      Hence at one time menstruation was held in much awe and abhorrence.
      Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
      5
      The inheritance she abhorred endowed her with the capacity for that abhorrence.
      The Miller Of Old Church
      6
      She uttered a cry of horror, and raised her hands in abhorrence.
      Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
      7
      As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.
      Pride and Prejudice
      8
      She turned from the life she pictured with a shudder of abhorrence.
      A Terrible Secret: A Novel
      9
      These rulers have the same dignified abhorrence for all kinds of religion.
      The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
      10
      The Roman services were no objects to him of abhorrence or indifference.
      Occasional Papers / Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and t...
      11
      She does not excite our loathing and abhorrence like Regan and Goneril.
      Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
      12
      Here Mrs. Verne shrugged her shoulders and assumed a look of abhorrence.
      Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
      13
      Nor was his hatred of war merely an instinctive abhorrence of bloodshed.
      Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
      14
      He then likens the commemorative march in Castlederg to such an abhorrence.
      The Irish Times
      15
      My long-cherished reverence for Mr. Falkland was changed to something like abhorrence.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
      16
      He felt again his shivering abhorrence of her cold, clearly narrated story.
      The Evil Shepherd
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