abhorrence

• [184] It was once commonly stated, as by Morgan and by Maine, that this abhorrence was the result of experience; the marriages of closely related persons were found to be injurious to offspring and were therefore avoided. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
• So says the whole English-speaking race, you on your side of the sea, and we on ours But the feeling of abhorrence which is not, at such a moment as this, sternly and incessantly translated into deeds is of no account! —  Towards the Goal
• As concerning the abhorrence which is expressed for onions, it is wholly improbable that this detestation is owing to the loss of Diktys, who, whilst he was under the guardianship of Isis, is supposed to have fallen into the river and to have been drowned as he was reaching after a bunch of them. —  Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
• Where is thy self-abhorrence, thy blushing before God, for the sin that is yet behind? —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
• But my abhorrence, the full sentiment —  The Piccolomini

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