abhor

To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.

Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.

To fill with horror or disgust.

But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, It do's abhorre me now I speake the word, To do the Act, that might the addition earne, Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me.

To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.

To protest against; to reject solemnly.

I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth.

To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.

Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.

Either then the law by harmless and needful dispenses, which the gospel is now made to deny, must have anticipated and exceeded the grace of the gospel, or else must be found to have given politic and superficial graces without real pardon, saying in general, “do this and live,” and yet deceiving and damning underhand with unsound and hollow permissions; which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law, as hath been shewed.