(archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.[Late 16th century.][1]
abhorrent thoughts
1803, Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France[1]:
The persons mostabhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
Contrary to something;discordant.[Mid 17th century.][1]
1827,Edward Gibbon,The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire[2]:
This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, soabhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
1990, James Hankins,Plato in the Italian Renaissance[3]:
In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterlyabhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
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