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Definition
to hate or detest something
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.Chapter 5 (95% in)
abhorrence = disgust
- The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.Chapter 7 (48% in)
- "They'll loudly talk of Christ's reward, And bind his image with a cord, And scold, and swing the lash abhorred, And sell their brother in the Lord To handcuffed heavenly union.Appendix (81% in)
There are no more uses of "abhor" in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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