Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AB-HOR'RENT
AB-HOR'RENCE, or AB-HOR'REN-CYAB-HOR'RENT-LY
AB-HOR'RENT, a.
- Hating, detesting, struck with abhorrence.
- Contrary, odious, inconsistent with, expressive of extreme opposition; as, slander is abhorrent to all ideas of justice. In this sense, it should be always followed by to – abhorrent from is not agreeable to the English idiom.
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