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To abhor a kind of behaviour or a way of thinking is to hate it because you feel it is morally wrong. You abhor cruelty. You abhor lying to get rich. The word is strong, and a little old and serious. In daily talk, most people say hate, can't stand, or that's wrong. Teachers, judges, and writers still use abhor when they want the moral weight. Though actually, people do stretch it. You may hear I abhor waiting, which is just a big word for dislike. The heart of the word is still: this is not only unpleasant — it feels unclean or , and I pull away from it.
憎惡、痛恨（帶「覺得這樣不對」的意思，不只是不喜歡）
組成From Latin abhorreō, from ab- (“from, away from”) + horreō (“stand aghast, bristle with fear”). To abhor is, in the root, to shrink away in horror.
同家族的字
- horrorsame Latin root horreō, “bristle with fear”
- horriblesame Latin horreō
- abhorrentthe adjective from the same verb
- abhorrencethe noun for this feeling
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abhorverb/əbˈhɔː/
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To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
- I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
- Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.
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obsoleteTo fill with horror or disgust.
- But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me.
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To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
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obsoleteTo protest against; to reject solemnly.
- I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth.
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obsoleteTo feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
- Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.
- Either then the law by harmless and needful dispenses, which the gospel is now made to deny, must have anticipated and exceeded the grace of the gospel, or else must be found to have given politic and superficial graces without real pardon, saying in general, “do this and live,” and yet deceiving and damning underhand with unsound and hollow permissions; which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law, as hath been shewed.
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obsoleteDiffer entirely from.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。