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Definition
to hate or detest something
- How I do still abhor —Chapter 15 (17% in)
- I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.Chapter 2 (94% in)
- Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end.Chapter 6 (95% in)
- I like Thornfield, its antiquity, its retirement, its old crow-trees and thorn-trees, its grey facade, and lines of dark windows reflecting that metal welkin: and yet how long have I abhorred the very thought of it, shunned it like a great plague-house?Chapter 15 (16% in)
- I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane — the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty.Chapter 21 (92% in)
- To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.Chapter 27 (28% in)
- The elder one, whom you have seen (and whom I cannot hate, whilst I abhor all his kindred, because he has some grains of affection in his feeble mind, shown in the continued interest he takes in his wretched sister, and also in a dog-like attachment he once bore me), will probably be in the same state one day.Chapter 27 (34% in)
- Abhorred spot!Chapter 27 (61% in)
- In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself.Chapter 27 (97% in)
There are no more uses of "abhor" in Jane Eyre.
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