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abhorrent, ppl. a.|æbˈhɒrənt|
[ad. L. abhorrent-em, pr. pple. of abhorr-ēre: see abhor.]
1. Abhorring, shrinking with horror; having or showing abhorrence, repugnance, or detestation (of).
1749Smollett Regicide iv. iii. 79 (1777) No! let me wipe thee..From my abhorrent thoughts! 1810Southey Kehama viii. 9 Whiten the lip, and make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. 1835I. Taylor Spirit. Despotism iv. 155 The two principles..are abhorrent the one of the other. 1869Gladstone Juv. Mundi xv. §5. 533 The Greek of the heroic age was eminently temperate and abhorrent of excess.
2. In a position of recoil or dissent from; strongly opposed to; at variance subjectively.
a. Of persons, which is the original use.
1619Sanderson Serm. I. ad Clerum §21 They (the Puritans) jumpe with the Papists, whom they would seeme above all others most abhorrent from. 1664H. More Apology 498 Which I must confess Calvin seems abhorrent from. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 71 These Philosophers fall unawares into that very thing which they are so abhorrent from. 1790Burke French Rev. 199 The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation.
b. Of things: So far removed from as to be repugnant or inconsistent.
1720Rowe Tamerlane v. i. 71 It is a manner Abhorrent from the softness of thy Sex. 1794Burke Rep. of Committee on Lords' Journ. Wks. XIV. 379 Two stages of proof, both of them contrary to the law, and both abhorrent from its principles. 1822T. Taylor Metam. of Apuleius 364 For similars are not abhorrent from similars. 1845Stephen Laws of Eng. I. 113 An act abhorrent from Hindoo superstition. 1864Merivale Boyle Lect. 37 The simple theory of the Gospel..was strange and abhorrent from the prejudices of the heathen.
3. Repugnant in nature or character (to); at variance objectively.
1660R. Coke Elem. Power & Subj. 64 It is abhorrent and impossible to frame a Commonwealth in England from the example of the Romans and Athenians. Ibid. 49 Anarchy is like a vacuum in Nature; so abhorrent, that the World will rather return into Chaos, then suffer it. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Mankind 2 I think Atheism so unreasonable a thing, so abhorrent to the Light of Nature. 1685Burnet More's Utopia 9 In a Way so abhorrent to my Genius. 1796Burke Regicide Peace Wks. 1842 II. 323 A guilty race, to whose frame..order, peace, religion, and virtue, are alien and abhorrent. 1863Kemble Residence in Georgia 15 They are not abhorrent to nature.
4. Hence, through influence of 1: Viewed with repugnance and aversion; hateful, detestable, abhorred.
1833I. Taylor Fanaticism §1. 3 Pride, abhorrent as it is. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. xiii. 114 These of course were abhorrent to the English, who were delighted when Edward and Warwick hurried to the north. 1874R. Congreve Essays 166 The case becomes almost infinitely more abhorrent, when their acts..expose others to suspicion. |