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Definition of Abhorrences
1. abhorrence [n] - See also: abhorrence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abhorrences
Literary usage of Abhorrences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lover's Lexicon: A Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, Philosophers by Frederick Greenwood (1893)
"It is natural to love, and a proof of its " beauty of holiness," that no sooner
does it take possession than abhorrences of the fiercest kind start up in ..."
2. Art in America by Frederick Fairchild Sherman (1922)
"He abhors fetters, abhors also conventionality, indeed he almost makes a formula
of his abhorrences. He does not hesitate to paint ugly women even extremely ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Concert, very well; — but let us now, suppressing any a abhorrences, hear him on
another subject: — Dinner lasts one hour [says our Demon, no better in- ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"... and declares that when she 'changed her state' she determined to ' set aside
all her innate and original abhorrences, and to regard and use as resources ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"Concert, very well; — but let us now, suppressing any little abhorrences, hear
him on another subject: "Dinner lasts one hour" (says our Demon, ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... when the whole moral soul, with all its strongest affections and instinctive
abhorrences, has sunk prostrate under the force of that animal suffering. ..."
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