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perhorrescing

perhorrescing is the present participle and gerund of perhorresce.

Meaning of perhorresce

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

Questions about perhorrescing

What is perhorrescing the present participle and gerund of?
Perhorrescing is the present participle and gerund of perhorresce.

Words near perhorrescing in the dictionary

  1. perhexilline
  2. PERHILITAN
  3. perhorresce
  4. perhorresced
  5. perhorresces
  6. perhorrescing
  7. perhumid
  8. perhydrate
  9. perhydrates
  10. perhydro
  11. perhydrocyclopentanophenanthrene

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