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Abhorrence

Abhorrence meaning

Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing. | An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II. | A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing.

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He reiterated his view that the sentencing guidelines as they relate to cocaine do not reflect society’s abhorrence for the drug.

Jane Pettigrew, course director at the UK Tea Academy that the time taken for brewing is a key part of a tea break ritual, and rapid teabags, like PG Tips’s new creation, are an abhorrence.

Muller’s abhorrence for robot-kind was far too profound, and his willingness to destroy an entire planet is a testament to his hatred.

Miserable Labour and Tory MPs know all of those problems, but one factor is overcoming fear of breaking away; abhorrence at the thought of staying where they are.

It reared its head in the downsides of military rule, through their abhorrence of debate, due process and methods in public administration.

Mr Francis Ameyibor, CDA Consult Executive Director commended SML and Mr Gokaldas for stepping out to join the anti-counterfeit electrical products campaign which is a strong attestation of the company's abhorrence to fake electrical products.

Another is a mention by the Prophet Daniel of those who sleep in the earth rising to either everlasting life or everlasting abhorrence.

During his prolonged stay in Rome, according to his own representation, his abhorrence of the pagan cults sparked deep reflections on religious problems.

He often emphasized his abhorrence of racism, and used his work to show that there was no scientific basis for such a bias.

He wrote to William Cole in Geneva, saying that the duchess had "like us, the greatest abhorrence of the ceremonies" (meaning the increasing reversion to the use of vestments).

Morgan, Ted, "Literary Outlaw", W. W. Norton & Company, 2012, p. 55 His abhorrence of the government did not prevent Burroughs from using its programs to his own advantage.

Only Eugène Delacroix and other pupils of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin —the leaders of that romantic movement for which Ingres throughout his long life always expressed the deepest abhorrence—seem to have recognized his merits.

Page 43. Many of the pillars of Maoism such as the distrust of intellectuals and the abhorrence of occupational specialty are typical populist ideas.

Pascal goes on to claim that this abhorrence of a void is however a limited force and thus that the creation of a vacuum is possible.

The Lord Pope always turns aside from the street, and it is believed by many that this is done because of abhorrence of the event.

The worn-out fabric of old clothing was used for baby clothes because soft cloth was good for the skin of babies and worn-out material protected babies from gods of illness and demons due to these gods' abhorrence of dirty things.

We have a deep abhorrence of war for war's sake; we are not enamored of glamour or glory.