Brewer's: Abhor

Abhor′

(Latin,ab, away from, and horreo, to shrink; originally, to shudder have the hair on end).

To abhor is to have a natural antipathy, and to show it by shuddering with disgust.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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