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  • past participle of abhor.
  • past tense form of abhor.
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abhorred

[ab-hawrd] / æbˈhɔrd /






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Can I who know the right, and spring From Daśaratha, purest king— Can I commit a heinous crime, Abhorred by all through endless time?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Abhorred and circumvented as he was, old master, having the power, very easily took revenge.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

His Queen, that portent crowned, She that with name of wife was yet no wife, Abhorred that Cross and feared.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Abhorred and intolerable certainty succeeded to the doubts which had haunted my mind.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

O dark cloud, descendingI 1 Unutterably on me! invincible, Abhorred, borne onward by too sure a wind.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles




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