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Example sentences for "abhorring"

Lexicographically close words:
abhorred; abhorrence; abhorrent; abhorrest; abhorreth; abhors; abidden; abide; abided; abiden
  1. The best heathens abhorring what pretended Christians plead for.

  2. With few exceptions, they remained steadfast in their uncompromising non- conformity, abhorring Prelacy and Popery, and entertaining no very orthodox notions with respect to the divine right of Kings.

  3. Gallic followers of his sturdy queen, with whom his hard-headed and wooden-shoe-abhorring subjects had come to be at deadly feud.

  4. He frequents the pools and the wide lakes, and abhorring fire, he chooses the streams, the {very} contrary of flames.

  5. Christ-abhorring sinners by rendering to them the just judgment of God?

  6. They may be said to come to Christ, but not to God by him, who do pick and choose doctrines, itching only after that which sounds of grace,12 but secretly abhorring of that which presseth to moral goodness.

  7. How can I then be accepted by a holy and sin-abhorring God?

  8. When Talkative asked Faithful what difference there is between crying out against and abhorring sin, he answered, "O!

  9. Ben, though secretly abhorring this villany of Ralph, yet suffered himself to be so enamoured of his vivacity and wit, as to make him an inmate.

  10. Immediately all the rest of the provinces which he held on the continent, except a part of Guienne, despairing of his protection, and abhorring his government, threw themselves into the hands of Philip.

  11. The magnificence and wonder of the universe celebrated in that voice of the whirlwind had to be given the lame and impotent conclusion of Job 'abhorring himself,' and 'repenting in dust and ashes.

  12. It is an example of the completeness and consistency with which a theory may organise its myth, that the fatal demons are generally represented as abhorring salt--the preserving agent and foe of decay.

  13. So in his look there was to be seen nothing of the whiplash, not one thing reminiscent of the abhorring fanatic on the outskirts of the city.

  14. Two parties were in the city, one favouring Alvan, and one abhorring the audacious Jew.

  15. And the son loves the father, the father the son; they reciprocate affection through the closest of ties; and shall they view behaviour unkindly wounding either of them, not for each other's dear sake abhorring the criminal?

  16. About him many shepherds and sheep with pleasant pipes, greatly abhorring the life of courtiers.

  17. Minos makes himself master of the place; and, abhorring Scylla and the crime she has been guilty of, he takes his departure.

  18. Frank, you must know the causes your mother has for abhorring any connection with our unhappy family.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abhorring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.