单词 | abhorrable |
释义 | abhorrableadj. Likely to instil loathing or disgust; worthy of abhorrence; = abhorrible adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [adjective] > abhorred or detestable loathlyc900 loathsomec1440 abhorrablea1475 homynable1489 huggeda1533 ill-favoured1562 abhorrible1602 a1475 Revelations St. Birgitta (Garrett) (1929) 60 (MED) All thynges þat ar of God and that he oweth to do to God ar bitter to him and abhorable, as if it wer a vomyte or gall. 1684 Confession, Profession & Conversion of Honourable & Most Worthy Young Gentlewoman 11 I lost conceits of their Legends, and lives of their Saints, wherein I found some abhorrable lies. 1720 W. Cheyn Great Danger & Vanity or Folly of Atheism Discovered i. 129 Examples..of the most unnatural and abhorrable Actions perpetrat [sic] by Mankind. 1886 West Shore (Portland, Oregon) Oct. 311/2 The religious dogmas of the Puritans..were maintained by men who were..neither ridiculous nor abhorable. 1918 G. A. Chaquarian tr. S. M. Ohanesian Life's Demand in 20th Cent. 593 Short or long, all wars bear the same abhorrable nature. 1998 Afr. News (Nexis) 24 Sept. It is scandalous and abhorrable for CAF to turn the Cairo offices into a political forum. 2014 Pakistan Observer (Nexis) 23 June More abhorable was that they made the country a sanctuary of foreign terrorists. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1475 |
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