abhorrentlyadv.

1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature (ed. 7) 55 The artist has drawn him..looking abhorrently on those rapacious beings who gloried in his death.

1813 J. Montgomery World before Flood ix. 14 Still on the youth, his eye, wherever cast, Abhorrently return'd, and fix'd at last.

1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming II. iii. 58 He swept them both from his recollection abhorrently.

1934 Moulton (Iowa) Weekly Tribune 15 Feb. 3/2 Suddenly, abruptly, she felt the hard circle of the wedding-ring on her finger. She stared at it curiously, abhorrently.

1789 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy III. xviii. 239 Thou canst not..more certainly, and abhorrently, offend and wound the majesty of God, than by despising, ridiculing, and turning from, such a countenance.

1814 Examiner 24 Apr. 270/1 What can be more abhorrently sickening than the disgust forced upon us at a Theatre, in spite of all the good nature we are supposed to carry thither?

1868 G. A. Sala Notes & Sketches of Paris Exhib. xi. 135 A woman can wear man's clothes and look perfectly graceful in them; whereas a man can never be anything but abhorrently repulsive in the garments of the opposite sex.

1920 M. S. Watts Noon-mark v. 106 He recalled having cut his hand badly one day,..and how she had..washed and bound up the wound which bled abhorrently.

1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves vi. 177 There is something abhorrently cruel and unconsidered about the culture.