perhorresce
English
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editFrom Latin perhorrēscere.
Pronunciation
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editperhorresce (third-person singular simple present perhorresces, present participle perhorrescing, simple past and past participle perhorresced)
- (rare, formal, transitive, intransitive) To shudder (at). [from 19th c.]
- 1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii:
- This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.
- 1905, John Dewey, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 15:
- otherwise the curtain-wind fact would have as much ontological reality as the existence of the Absolute itself: a conclusion at which the non-empiricist perhorresces […]
- 1930, Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, volume II, page 431:
- The "Messidor" style of new buildings allowed only the Classical straight line, and perhorresced at every curve.
Latin
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editperhorrēsce