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/əbˈhɔː.ɹə/
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/æbˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
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əbˈhɔː.ɹə
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æbˈhɔɹ.ɚ
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Noun
One who abhors.
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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.
The “even be killed” is not comic, for Thoreau the individualist must have found it in theory as difficult to imagine himself dying for others as Thoreau the abhorrer of violence found it difficult to imagine himself killing another individual.
Hate, detester, abhorrer. Enemy, ennemi. With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.
Thus, chiefly through the efforts of this lover of peace and abhorrer of war, the art of maiming and killing became ever more efficient.
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The problem of usage comes in for abhorrer in various ways: There are 63 entries with the root abhor, including 3 abhorrer, 17 abhorrence.
A nickname given in the early 17ᵗʰ century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II.
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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[…]
Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.
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The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory.
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a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred