Definition of Abhorrence

Abhorrence

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Related Definitions:

Detestation, Dislike, Extreme, Feeling, Hatred, Of, Or, The, Utter

Abhorrence Quotations

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Joseph Rotblat

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
John Sergeant Wise

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Edward Heath

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Abhorrence Translations

abhorrence in Danish is afsky
abhorrence in Dutch is gruwel, verschrikking, gruweldaad
abhorrence in German is Abscheu {f}
abhorrence in Italian is orrore
abhorrence in Norwegian is vemmelse
abhorrence in Spanish is aborrecimiento, abominacion

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