abhorrers

Noun

abhorrer (plural abhorrers)

1. One who abhors.
   • Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time.1839, Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring, The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected; under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, page 450
2. (capitalized, historical, sometimes) A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
   • Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer[…]1890, Thomas de Quincey, edited by David Masson, The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, page 389