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词汇 abhorrence
释义 abhorrence
noun[ S or U ]
 formaluk /əˈbɒr.əns/ us /æbˈhɔːr.əns/
a feeling of hating something or someone: 憎恶;憎恨;厌恶
She looked at him in/with abhorrence.她憎恶地看着他。
She has an abhorrence of change.她憎恶变革。
Synonyms
loathingformal
odiumformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abomination
anathema
animosity
animus
anti-Catholicism
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
execrate
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
misogynist
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

Examples of abhorrence


abhorrence
The abhorrence of the pantheistic view may be misguided since we can retain some important traditional theistic doctrines along with pantheism.
The writer reviews the effect of this blunt abhorrence of abnormal forms,47 which register deep psychological terror in the imagery of nightmare.
The degree of contamination perceived ranges on a scale which has fear, abhorrence, loathing and contempt at one end, and nothing worse than low social esteem at the other.
Koven first turns his attention to the labours of elite women, focusing on their simultaneous abhorrence of and fascination with the 'dirt' of slum life.
Morton also earned the abhorrence of western agrarians.
More to the point, left-wing abhorrence of a movement that would have banned their organizations, imprisoned their leaders and activists, and established a dictatorial government hardly seems peculiar.
Salem scholarship did not really begin until the mid-nineteenth century, and when it did, it arose as a reaction of abhorrence that such an event could have occurred.
The exclusion of the courts and judicial review is an abhorrence within our system.
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In all such cases, when the judge wishes to impose a life sentence, should not that feeling of abhorrence be expressed?
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The conclusions are an adherence to the democratic process and an abhorrence of and moving away from the use of arms.
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Although there are complications, on balance it would be worth it to mark our abhorrence of that type of crime.
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From the economic viewpoint, there is the abhorrence of the waste of human and physical assets.
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One of the characteristics in the forward surge of mankind to greater civilisation is a growing abhorrence of all forms of cruelty.
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I accept the present situation with abhorrence and reluctance.
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More than that, it is vital and correctly reflects society's abhorrence of the evils that it seeks to address.
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