ABHORRENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abhorrence mean? 

• ABHORRENCE (noun)
  The noun ABHORRENCE has 1 sense:

1. hate coupled with disgust

  Familiarity information: ABHORRENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABHORRENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hate coupled with disgust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium

Hypernyms ("abhorrence" is a kind of...):

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Derivation:

abhor (find repugnant)

abhorrent (offensive to the mind)

 Context examples 

I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But as my discourse had increased his abhorrence of the whole species, so he found it gave him a disturbance in his mind to which he was wholly a stranger before.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Young fool!” he cried, holding the woman still to his side, though every line of her shrinking figure spoke her abhorrence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I came to myself at Lanyon’s, the horror of my old friend perhaps affected me somewhat: I do not know; it was at least but a drop in the sea to the abhorrence with which I looked back upon these hours.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And that, said Rosa Dartle, is so strong a claim, preferred by one so infamous, that if I had any feeling in my breast but scorn and abhorrence of you, it would freeze it up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Crawford was no longer the Mr. Crawford who, as the clandestine, insidious, treacherous admirer of Maria Bertram, had been her abhorrence, whom she had hated to see or to speak to, in whom she could believe no good quality to exist, and whose power, even of being agreeable, she had barely acknowledged.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"I confess," replied Elinor, "that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)