abhorring

verbregard with contempt or disgust

Synonyms for abhorring

verb regard with contempt or disgust

Antonyms for abhorring

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., from Latin abhorrere "shrink back from, have an aversion for, shudder at," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + horrere "tremble at, shudder," literally "to bristle, be shaggy," from PIE *ghers- "start out, stand out, rise to a point, bristle" (see horror). Related: Abhorred; abhorring.

Example Sentences for abhorring

In these sentiments I grew, hated and abhorring, despising and contemned.

There are few Cameros, men of clear judgment, and abhorring to write.

Yet God has even cast off His altar, abhorring His very sanctuary.

His active mind, abhorring idleness, was soon at work again.

I was not a stranger to the science of the ring, while abhorring prize-fighting.

One of his peculiarities was that of abhorring a vacuum as much as nature herself.

Abhorring lying and swearing, being just, in all that lay in his power, to his word.

Abhorring slovenliness and the Jacobin motley, he would not affect them.

The old quaint notion of Nature's abhorring a vacuum was found to be practically only an assertion that the air had weight.

And thus he died, abhorring the mother who had counselled him to commit this horrible deed.