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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of abhor.

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abhor + -est

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Examples

  • Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.

    Letter to a Friend 2007

  • Fall not into one name with that unclean spirit, nor act his nature whom thou so much abhorrest, that is, to accuse, calumniate, backbite, whisper, detract, or sinistrously interpret others.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • 'Tis thy want alone that keeps thee in health of body and mind, and that which thou persecutest and abhorrest as a feral plague is thy physician and [3753] chiefest friend, which makes thee a good man, a healthful, a sound, a virtuous, an honest and happy man.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3582] Whereas many a man would think himself in heaven, a pretty prince, if he had but the least part of that fortune which thou so much repinest at, abhorrest and accountest a most vile and wretched estate.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If thou abhorrest her perfidy, turn from her in disdain, renounce her, for baneful are her delusions.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • And so many cities are but as so many hives of bees, anthills; but that which thou abhorrest, many seek: women keep in all winter, and most part of summer, to preserve their beauties; some for love of study:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For before the child shall know how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Even this which thou so much abhorrest, it may be for thy progeny's good, [6188] better be any man's son than thine, to be begot of base Irus, poor Seius, or mean Mevius, the town swineherd's, a shepherd's son: and well is he, that like

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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