abhorrencyn.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H4 It was no vncouth abhorrencie from the custome of former writers, for a man openly to bewaile his vndeserued ill destenie.

1596 C. Gibbon Watch-worde for Warre sig. B3 Bellum innaturale, vnnaturall warre, is such as carrieth with it a kinde of abhorrencie in nature.

1619 T. Gainsford True Hist. Earle of Tirone 43 There is a kinde of antipathy..betweene creature and creature, and many times such an abhorrency, that the very sight and intermixture of things breedeth death.

1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iii. iv. 157 Motions simple are..lastly Motion of Rest or abhorrency of Motion, which is the Cause of many things.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 325 A vast Prerogative, that man hath over the rest of the Creatures, by only knowing their Inclinations and Abhorrencies.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xli. 416 The lay people were growing into an abhorrency of those that wore them.

1784 Morning Herald 24 Feb. There is nothing that an undeluded eye looks on with more abhorrency.

1892 J. Earle Deeds of Beowulf 155 Is it merely the utterance of abomination and abhorrency, rejecting the monsters..as unworthy to breed and have a pedigree?

1907 Poverty Bay (N.Z.) Herald 22 May The Douma unanimously expressed joy at the Czar's escape and abhorrency of the regicidal plot.

1645 J. Goodwin Innocency & Truth Triumphing 12 It is the first-born of abhorrencies in Independency, to compell any man blindly to submit unto any thing.

1659 F. Howgill Popish Inquisition 4 It is an abhorrency to all sober people; you have stained the Earth and defiled your Land with blood.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Heb. x. 38 Backsliders from the Gospel are in a peculiar manner the abhorrency of the Soul of God.