Word Meanings - ABHORRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Detestation. Milton. 2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24.

Related words: (words related to ABHORRING)

• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• OBJECTIZE
  To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object. In the latter, as objectized by the former, arise the emotions and affections. Coleridge.
• OBJECTION
  1. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson. 2. That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATION
  Converting into an object.
• OBJECTIFY
  To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.
• OBJECTOR
  One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
• OBJECTABLE
  Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection.
• DETESTATION
  The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke.
• OBJECTIONABLE
  Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. -- Ob*jec"tion*a*bly, adv.
• ABHORRENCE
  Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
• OBJECTIVELY
  In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.
• OBJECTIVE
  Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SELF-ABHORRENCE
  Abhorrence of one's self.