abhorrere

When nine years old she spoke Latin fluently, and wrote a discourse to show that liberal studies were not unsuited to her sex: "Oratio qua ostenditur artium liberalium studia femineo sexu neutiquam abhorrere".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

In his introductory remarks Luther not only disowned and emphatically condemned (_nos ab eiusmodi portentis prorsus abhorrere_)

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

As a followup to my earlier entry on the construction "boring of the task" and the Language Log entries by Mark Liberman linked therein, Mark has posted Horror and boredom in Castile, a summary of Christopher J. Pountain's paper "The Castilian reflexes of ABHORRERE/ABHORRESCERE: a case-study in valency":The basic observation is that Latin abhorrere started out meaning "to shrink back from, have an aversion for, shudder at, abhor", but one of the Spanish descendents, aburrir, wound up meaning "to bore".

languagehat.com: MORE BOREDOM. 2004

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