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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Abhorrence of one's self.
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Examples
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Camilla could not answer; certain, now, who it must be, her emotions became again uncontrollable; her horrour, her remorse, her self-abhorrence revived, and agonizingly exclaiming, ''Tis my Father!
Camilla 2008
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It was the word she applied to herself in moments of self-abhorrence.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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And when we come to this work in this ordinance, self-abasement, self-abhorrence, and brokenness of heart, will be acted, and flow forth in abundance of love to Jesus Christ.
Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968
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When Job comes to a clear discovery of the greatness and the excellency of God, he is filled with self-abhorrence and is pressed to humiliation, Job xlii.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967
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Hence, upon a view of any defilement of lust or passion, nothing troubles the saints more, nor fills them with more self-abhorrence and confusion of face, than this, that they have rendered their hearts an unsuitable habitation for the Spirit of God.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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They looked inward with a self-abhorrence, now inseparable from their existence.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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Every letter he got consulting him and appealing to him as if he had been God's living oracle made him lie down in the very dust with shame and self-abhorrence.
Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894
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'Let those who are tempted to his faults, tremble at his punishment; and those whom he impressed from the pulpit with religious sentiments, endeavour to confirm them, by considering the regret and self-abhorrence with which he reviewed in prison his deviations from rectitude.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He sought justification; he found self-abhorrence.
Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885
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He had had a passing moment of excitement at Murewell, soon put down, and followed by a week of extremely pleasant sensations, which, like most of his pleasures, had ended in reaction and self-abhorrence.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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