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“abhorrence”
1. Something that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent; a feeling of extreme aversion: "I have an abhorrence of monster movies."
2. A feeling of repugnance or loathing for something: "Such violence is an abhorrence to me."
2. A feeling of repugnance or loathing for something: "Such violence is an abhorrence to me."
"Why do these films have to show so many abhorrences of beating and slaughtering of people?"
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English Words in Action, Group A +
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“abhorrence”
1. Someone or something that is strongly or intensely disapproved of: "Gertrude had an irrational abhorrence of snakes."
2. That which is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent: "The first mate on the ship had an abhorrence for the smell of the water in the bilge."
3. A feeling of repugnance or loathing about someone or something: "The biologist's multiple abhorrences for reptiles and spiders will make it difficult for him to do much research when he goes to Africa next month."
2. That which is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent: "The first mate on the ship had an abhorrence for the smell of the water in the bilge."
3. A feeling of repugnance or loathing about someone or something: "The biologist's multiple abhorrences for reptiles and spiders will make it difficult for him to do much research when he goes to Africa next month."
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a-, ab-, abs-
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-ence, -ency +
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hor-, horr-
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“abhorrence”
(Greek > Latin: hate, hating, hated, hateful; abhor, abhorrence; loathsome, loathing)