Definition of Abhors. Meaning of Abhors. Synonyms of Abhors

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Definition of Abhors

Abhor
Abhor Ab*hor", v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] ``To abhor from those vices.' --Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. --Milton.
Abhor
Abhor Ab*hor", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abhorred; p. pr. & vb. n. Abhorring.] [L. abhorrere; ab + horrere to bristle, shiver, shudder: cf. F. abhorrer. See Horrid.] 1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. --Rom. xii. 9. 2. To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. --Shak. 3. (Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. --Shak. Syn: To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See Hate.

Meaning of Abhors from wikipedia

- Abhorrers is the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles...
- horror of the vacuum) or plenism (/ˈpliːnɪzəm/)—commonly stated as "nature abhors a vacuum", for example by Spinoza—is a hypothesis attributed to Aristotle...
- Abhor (or Amba Hor) and Mehraela were a brother and sister who were martyrs for the Christian faith. Etymology of the word "Abhor": from Latin abhorrēre...
- physical idea, horror vacui, proposed by Aristotle who held that "nature abhors an empty space". Italian art critic and scholar Mario Praz used this term...
- Yellow Submarine. They are a fictional army of disagreeable beings that abhor all music, allegorically representing all the bad people in the world. Their...
- speaking, her enemies divide themselves into three classes: first, those who abhor her both as a means and as an end of progress, opposing her openly, avowedly...
- diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen whom he abhorred. Caesar was ********inated on the Ides of March (15 March 44 BC), but Cleopatra...
- Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. The Abhorrers—those who thought the Exclusion Bill was abhorrent—were named Tories (after...
- out to the hippies to help combat the drug culture he and the president abhorred. He asked Nixon for a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, to...
- positive pressure Plenism, or Horror vacui (physics) the concept that "nature abhors a vacuum" Plenum (meeting), a meeting of a deliberative ****embly in which...