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1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 69 Women..with whose amiable aspects and countenaunces, the Trauailers are taken in their loue, condemning their former with despite and hatefull abhorrence.

1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 556 I cannot..with more resolution and abhorrence, abominate, and abandon such prodigiously-senselesse, and hellish blasphemies.

1681 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 106 The Premises considered, We your Majesty's Petitioners, out of a just Abhorrence of such a dangerous and pernicious Council, etc.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 56 Natures abhorrence of a Vacuity or empty space.

c1746 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 75 The Prince of Peace rejects them with abhorrence.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iv. 324 The Scots were held in abhorrence all over Europe.

1765 A. Tucker Light of Nature II. 659 Our abhorrences and tormenting passions, as well as the soothing, were designed for our benefit.

1809 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 27 458 A proof..of abhorrence against vice.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §19. 134 A wrench, for which I entertain considerable abhorrence.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xvii. 317 A woman's instinctive abhorrence of..wrong.

1904 W. M. Dunne tr. G. Flaubert Best Known Wks V. i. 440 A Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations.

1943 Evening Citizen (Ottawa) 8 Feb. 12/1 Churchill's visit may have done something to..show how deep is the British abhorrence to Vichy and its works.

1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over xi. 163 He always claimed he had an abhorrence of violence because his father used to beat him when he was a small boy.

1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 18 Neither is it so improbable that this Odour should proceed from putrefaction, which is naturally an abhorrence to the Nosthrill.

1752 E. Young Brothers v. i, in Wks. (1757) II. 287 His father's rebel! Brother's murderer! Nature's abhorrence, and—thy lawful Lord!

1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 183 Politics are my abhorrence.

a1835 D. Price Mem. Field Officer (1839) xvi. 516 We were again accommodated with that abhorrence of sailors, a calm; by our naval wits, denominated an Irish hurricane.

1858 C. Lamb in Harper's Mag. Dec. 89/2 Idleness and loafering is his special abhorrence.

1895 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1894 xliii. 287 Larking and guying on the stage are my abhorrence.

1946 ‘J. Tey’ Miss Pym Disposes vi. 52 That is our vacuum cleaner; known from here to New Zealand as The Abhorrence.

1999 Australian (Nexis) 1 Mar. 17 Even I once found pleasure in piles of neatly ironed and folded children's clothes, in cleaning the back of the taps—though now to me such activities are an abhorrence.

1672 R. McWard Eng. Ballance 92 We are become a by-word, a hissing, & an abhorrence, as the very border of wickednesse, for our prodigious, & unheard of impieties, to the Nations about us.

1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. (1875) IV. 305 The members of Parliament were under a penalty to take the oath, and make the declaration and abhorrence insuing.

1683 E. Bohun Refl. on Pamphlet 56 I hope it is no breach of Priviledge of Parliament now to beg a small favour at your Worships hands, and that is to produce but one instance of one single man that ever published an Abhorrence of Parliaments in general.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §60. 548 A World of such Flowers went to the adorning these returns of the People's Duty to the King, and scarce in any one of them the Word Abhor was wanted; which gave the Faction..Occasion to fall upon the Loyallists with that Term..; and thence the Addresses on this Occasion were called Abhorrences.

1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 81 Their Brethren refused to sign an Abhorrence of this Invitation.

1757 New Hist. Eng. III. 356 The Prince of Orange had published the same Declaration for Scotland as for England; and the Scotch Bishops signed an Abhorrence of his Expedition.

1833 J. B. S. Carwithen Hist. Church of Eng. III. xvii. 374 The bishops had willingly signed an abhorrence of his enterprise, but their sentiments were not accordant with the great part of the Scottish nation.

1995 R. H. Fritze & W. H. Robison Hist. Dict. Stuart Eng. (1996) 3 In general these abhorrences were signed by fewer people and attracted less attention than the Whig petitions.