All 7 Uses of
abhor
in
Great Expectations
- But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.†
p. 27.9abhorrence = disgust (feeling of complete dislike and revulsion)
- He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.†
p. 141.3 *abhorrent = disgusting (of something hated, detested, or immoral)
- While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.†
p. 279.8abhorrence = disgust (feeling of complete dislike and revulsion)
- The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.†
p. 340.4
- If I had loved him instead of abhorring him; if I had been attracted to him by the strongest admiration and affection, instead of shrinking from him with the strongest repugnance; it could have been no worse.†
p. 343.4abhorring = detesting
- Every hour so increased my abhorrence of him, that I even think I might have yielded to this impulse in the first agonies of being so haunted, notwithstanding all he had done for me and the risk he ran, but for the knowledge that Herbert must soon come back.†
p. 357.9abhorrence = disgust (feeling of complete dislike and revulsion)
- He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him.†
p. 372.6abhorrent = disgusting (of something hated, detested, or immoral)
Definition:
to hate or detest something
Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
As compared to "hate", "despise", or "loathe", "abhor" is often chosen to indicate moral revulsion.
As compared to "hate", "despise", or "loathe", "abhor" is often chosen to indicate moral revulsion.