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perhorresce

UK/pəːhəˈɹɛs/US/pɚhəˈɹɛs/

perhorresce verb: to shudder (at).

Verb

perhorresce (third-person singular simple present perhorresces, present participle perhorrescing, simple past and past participle perhorresced)

  1. (ambitransitive, formal, rare) To shudder (at).
    • This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii
    • otherwise the curtain-wind fact would have as much ontological reality as the existence of the Absolute itself: a conclusion at which the non-empiricist perhorresces […]1905, John Dewey, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 15

Forms of perhorresce

third-person singular presentperhorresces
present participleperhorrescing
past participleperhorresced
pastperhorresced

Origin of perhorresce

From Latin perhorrēscere.

Words that rhyme with perhorresce

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Questions about perhorresce

What does perhorresce mean?
Perhorresce means to shudder (at).
What part of speech is perhorresce?
Perhorresce is a verb.
How do you pronounce perhorresce?
Perhorresce is pronounced /pəːhəˈɹɛs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of perhorresce?
The past tense of perhorresce is perhorresced.

Words near perhorresce in the dictionary

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  3. perhexiline
  4. perhexilline
  5. PERHILITAN
  6. perhorresce
  7. perhorresced
  8. perhorresces
  9. perhorrescing
  10. perhumid
  11. perhydrate

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