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abhorrent

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借自拉丁語 abhorrēns, abhorrēntis，abhorreō (“痛恨”) 的現在主動分詞。等價於abhor +‎ -ent。

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abhorrent (比較級 more abhorrent，最高級 most abhorrent)

  1. (古舊) 背离的，相悖的，相反的 （16世纪末）[1]
    abhorrent thoughts
    完全不同的想法
    • 1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France‎[1]:
      The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
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  2. 与...相反的，与...不协调的（17世纪中叶）[1]
    • 1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire‎[2]:
      This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
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    • 1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance‎[3]:
      In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
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  3. 怀恨的，憎恶的，痛恨的 （18世纪中叶）[1]
  4. 令人厌恶的，可恨的，可憎的 （19世纪初叶）[1]
    • 1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism‎[4]:
      If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
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    • 1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human‎[5]:
      That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
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    • 1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas‎[6]:
      The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002年)，“abhorrent”，The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles，5th版，Oxford; New York, N.Y.：Oxford University Press，ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0，第 4 頁

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