All 7 Uses of
abhor
in
Sense and Sensibility
- It has given me such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one for all the world.†
Chpt 2 *
- I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all.†
Chpt 9
- But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.†
Chpt 11
- "I confess," replied Elinor, "that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence."†
Chpt 21
- She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a…†
Chpt 29
- Willoughby, he, whom only half an hour ago she had abhorred as the most worthless of men, Willoughby, in spite of all his faults, excited a degree of commiseration for the sufferings produced by them, which made her think of him as now separated for ever from her family, with a tenderness, a regret, rather in proportion, as she soon acknowledged within herself—to his wishes than to his merits.†
Chpt 45
- —I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(abhor) to hate or detest somethingeditor's notes: Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
As compared to "hate", "despise", or "loathe", "abhor" is often chosen to indicate moral revulsion.