abhor

Verb

abhor (third-person singular simple present abhors, present participle abhorring, simple past and past participle abhorred)

1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
   • I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
   • Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:9

   Synonyms:

   detest, disdain, loathe, hate

2. (impersonal, obsolete, transitive) To fill with horror or disgust.
   • But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore,
     It do's abhorre me now I speake the word,
     To do the Act, that might the addition earne,
     Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
3. (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
4. (obsolete, transitive, canon law) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
   • I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule
     Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more
     I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not
     At all a Friend to truth.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
   • 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 all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.1531, Thomas Elyot, “That all daunsinge is nat to be reproued”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y....
   • 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...1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], chapter VII, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book II, page 46
6. (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from.