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WOTD – 4 March 2008

Etymology

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First attested in 1449, fromMiddle Englishabhorren, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchabhorrer, fromLatinabhorreō(“shrink away from in horror”), fromab-(“from”) +‎horreō(“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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abhor (third-person singular simple presentabhors,present participleabhorring,simple past and past participleabhorred)

  1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) ashorrifying ordetestable; to feel greatrepugnance toward.[First attested from around (1350 to 1470).][2]
    Synonyms:detest,disdain,loathe
    I absolutelyabhor being stuck in traffic jams.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Romans12:9:
      Let loue bee without dissimulation:abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
    • 2003 April 20,Henry G. Brinton, “A Congregation Divided”, inThe Washington Post‎[1],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on28 January 2024‎[2]:
      I have risked alienating some members with criticism of the war, reminding them, for example, that the Lordabhors our worship of the false gods of Western affluence, worldly power and high technology. I agree withMichael J. Easley, the senior pastor-teacher of Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, when he says, "I think my 'job' is to clearly teach the Scriptures, not be persuaded by what may or may not be our people's views."
  2. (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror ordisgust.[Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 17th century.][2]
  3. (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
  4. (transitive, canon law, obsolete) Toprotest against; to rejectsolemnly.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror,disgust, ordislike (towards); to becontrary oraverse (to);construed withfrom.[Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][2]
    • 1531,Thomas Elyot, “That all daunsinge is nat to be reproued”, inErnest Rhys, editor,The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London:J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.:E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published[1907],→OCLC, 1st book,page86:
      Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of allabhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.
    • 1644,J[ohn] M[ilton], chapter VII, inThe Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London:[s.n.],→OCLC, book II,page46:
      Either then the law by harmless and needful dispenses, which the gospel is now made to deny, must have anticipated and exceeded the grace of the gospel, or else must be found to have given politic and superficial graces without real pardon, saying in general, “do this and live,” and yet deceiving and damning underhand with unsound and hollow permissions; which is utterlyabhorring from the end of all law, as hath been shewed.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from.[Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.][2]

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofabhor
infinitive(to)abhor
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularabhorabhorred
2nd-personsingularabhor,abhorrest†abhorred,abhorredst†
3rd-personsingularabhors,abhorreth†abhorred
pluralabhor
subjunctiveabhorabhorred
imperativeabhor—
participlesabhorringabhorred

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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to regard with horror or detestation
to reject with disdain

References

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  1. ^Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 2
  2. ↑2.02.12.22.3Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhor”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 4.

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