abhor

• Does our society have the means to evolve or are we so greedy for wealth that we become that which we abhor, asks a News24 User. —  News24
• The path gray heads abhor: this verse and the following stanza are, with most readers, the CRUX of the poem; "gray heads" must be understood with some restriction: many gray heads, not all, abhor --gray heads who went along through their flowery youth as if it had no limit, and without insuring, in Love's true season, the happiness of their lives beyond youth's limit, "life's safe hem", which to cross without such insurance, is often fatal. —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
• I abhor, as much as you do, the doings of the Spaniards; and am perfectly ready to avow that I belong to another nation, and to join you in an enterprise against them But that, as you have told me," Cacama said, "would cut off any chance of your ever being able to return to your own country I am ready to accept that," Roger said firmly. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
• You know that I abhor, as much as you do, the cruel massacre at the temple. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
• Certain it is, that we can be forced to act against our will, to perform that which we abhor, and do not consent to do. —  Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

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