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Definition of Abhorred
1. abhor [v] - See also: abhor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abhorred
Literary usage of Abhorred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Thank God you have escaped her: the abhorred of the Lord shall fall into her ditch.
(Prov. xxii. 14.) FAITH. Nay, I know not whether I did wholly escape her ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"In the actions of these desperate enthusiasts, who were admired by one party as
the martyrs of God, and abhorred by the other as the victims of Satan, ..."
3. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1871)
"And made Me to be abhorred of them, as even His chief Apostle denied Him with
curses ; as the Name of CHRIST is still loathed and blasphemed by His unhappy ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... they have been very penitent, much abhorred their former act, confessed that
they have repented in an instant, and cried for mercy in their hearts. ..."
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