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# abhorrence

«abhorrence» in Mova's school dictionary: **a deep feeling of hatred or disgust for something wrong…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

Abhorrence is a deep feeling of hatred or disgust for something wrong or cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a wife or hero who shows strong disgust at any betrayal or wrongdoing

### examples

- She felt abhorrence for the cruel steward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/#x1)
- His abhorrence of lies made him honest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/#x2)
- Everyone showed abhorrence at the thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/#x3)
- The faithful wife held cheating in abhorrence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abhorrence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abhorrence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.