abhor
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).
Base: horreō
Affixes: ab-
Inflected forms:
form: abhors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abhorring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: abhorrest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: abhorredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: abhors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abhorreth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: abhor
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: abhorring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abhorred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.
I have risked alienating some members with criticism of the war, reminding them, for example, that the Lord abhors our worship of the false gods of Western affluence, worldly power and high technology. I agree with Michael J. Easley, the senior pastor-teacher of Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, when he says, "I think my 'job' is to clearly teach the Scriptures, not be persuaded by what may or may not be our people's views."
gloss: To fill with horror or disgust.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
obsolete
transitive
examples: But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore,
It do's abhorre me now I speake the word,
To do the Act, that might the addition earne,
Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me.
gloss: To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To protest against; to reject solemnly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule
Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more
I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not
At all a Friend to truth.
gloss: To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.
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.
gloss: Differ entirely from.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Related words: abhorred
abhorrence
abhorrency
abhorrent
abhorrently
abhorrer
abhorrible
abhorring
Derived words: abhorrable
abhorration
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