Word of the Day:
abhor
What It Means
To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
To fill with horror or disgust.
To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
Abhor in Context
“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...”
Did You Know?
First attested in 1449, from Middle English abhorren, borrowed from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō (“shrink away from in horror”), from ab- (“from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”).
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