abhorrency
English edit
Etymology edit
abhorrence + -y
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abhorrency (plural abhorrencies)
- (obsolete) Aberrancy. [Attested only in the late 16th century.][1]
- (obsolete) Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence. [Attested from the early 17th century until the early 18th century.][1]
- (obsolete) something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing. [Attested only in the early 18th century.][1]
Related terms edit
References edit
- ↑ 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.