English vocabulary examples in context: abhorrence
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 1.
But it may be pleaded for Jervas that a good deal of this rigidity is due to his abhorrence of the light, flippant, jocose style of his predecessors.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 2.
My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 3.
I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 4.
I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 5.
They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form?
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 6.
I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 7.
You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 8.
As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 9.
She could not determine how her mother would take it; sometimes doubting whether all his wealth and grandeur would be enough to overcome her abhorrence of the man.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 10.
By a little inquiry regarding his mother's engagements, he was pretty soon able to find out by whom of her ladyship's friends parties were given at that season; where he would be likely to meet Osborne's sisters; and, though he had that abhorrence of routs and evening parties which many sensible men, alas!
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 11.
As for Mrs. Amelia, she was a woman of such a soft and foolish disposition that when she heard of anybody unhappy, her heart straightway melted towards the sufferer; and as she had never thought or done anything mortally guilty herself, she had not that abhorrence for wickedness which distinguishes moralists much more knowing.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 12.
It was with a very bad grace they did so, for Englishmen have a due abhorrence of imposition.
Vocabulary in context: abhorrence -- Example 13.
Despite his reluctant to remain in Moscow among people who had known him before, and despite his abhorrence of the civil service, he accepted a post in Moscow in that service, doffed the uniform of which he was so fond, and moved with his mother and Sonya to a small house on the Sivtsev Vrazhek.
