English edit

Etymology edit

abhorrence +‎ -y

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /əˈbɔɹɪnsi/
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Noun edit

abhorrency (plural abhorrencies)

  1. (obsolete) Aberrancy. [Attested only in the late 16th century.][1]
  2. (obsolete) Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence. [Attested from the early 17th century until the early 18th century.][1]
  3. (obsolete) something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing. [Attested only in the early 18th century.][1]

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhorrency”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.