I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.    From LearnThat.org.  [Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)]

Now, we must prologue a body of this article by stating which abhorrence is aged shawl when it comes to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

In the name of mercy, what has happened? cried Clara, shrinking in abhorrence from the ghastly woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Hand] Reference

The root of most people's kale abhorrence is texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaphanous Roasted Kale] Reference

They held adultery in abhorrence, and with the more reason as their marriages were dissolvable at pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Emily Montague] Reference

I held the tan-yard in abhorrence – to enter it made me ill for days; sometimes for months and months I never went near it.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

Yet the Hindus, I repeat, hold pederasty in abhorrence and are as much scandalised by being called Gánd-márá (anus-beater) or Gándú.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Or does it just boil down to self-satisfaction from long-term abhorrence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ABC Panelists Criticize Ailes’ Evasion Of Why Fox News Cut Away From Obama-House GOP Conversation] Reference

His abhorrence will be the only reward that you can expect for your passion and your mad self-sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

He said the current sanctions reflected Europe's "abhorrence" of the situation in Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'A thousand claims to 'abhorrence' meet in her, as mother, wife, and queen. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

Rather than regarding homosexual practice with "abhorrence" and "detestation" - as did George Washington and most everyone until recent years - Obama has euphemistically vowed to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans For Truth] Reference

'abhorrence' of the doctrine of nullification, her firm resolve to adhere to the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Soon daily contact with vice removes abhorrence to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

It is an imputation he must repel with abhorrence and wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

The suspension was meant to underscore U.S. abhorrence of terrorism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Slow Slide Toward War?] Reference

There was a murmur of abhorrence from the young voices about her, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

And how can that abhorrence be suitably displayed otherwise than by punishment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference

They looked inward with a self-abhorrence, now inseparable from their existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

She knew well her uncle's intense abhorrence of anything like treachery or deceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

I now view my former life with abhorrence, and sooner would I die than return to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

He had then become the staunchest of total abstainers, and he held its very name in abhorrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

"But it would be a vile thing to do," he pursued, still with that accent of incredulous abhorrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

The itty-bitty things were broken off of one large, significant thing — my abhorrence for cleaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country of Husbands] Reference

I told her that I held society in abhorrence and the story of my life, as I recited it, proved my sincerity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

I have not put my foot in the place since 1825, in order to testify the abhorrence with which it inspires me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The inmost abhorrence of slavery that fills the heart of this people it is impossible for language to exaggerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

The maintenance of law and order in the universe require the Divine Being to display His abhorrence of transgression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference

Biden himself would vociferously reject such an idea; he makes no secret of his abhorrence for Cheney and "the neocons.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Cheney?] Reference

But who does not see the utter impossibility of this, if some continue an indulgence which others regard with abhorrence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

He despised "Society" and the whole fabric of fashion, and held the world of Burke and Debrett in good-natured abhorrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

I dreaded the recurrence of the fits, and looked forward to their coming with such abhorrence that often the fear of having.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference

Mann's integrity, his abhorrence of crowd-pleasing Hollywood tactics, is admirable, but he keeps the audience at arm's length.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Split Decision] Reference

Genuine meat and drink there is none; cats hold the murderous neighbourhood in traditional abhorrence, and the ruddiest wine of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

The Preceptress started back with a look of loathing and abhorrence; but it was almost instantly succeeded by one of compassion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

Lenny slightly shuddered, and winced under the touch of one whom he had hitherto regarded with a sort of superstitious abhorrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

An abhorrence of same-sex relationships runs deep in much of Africa, reinforced by local culture and mirrored in traditional religions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CRISIS IN THE COMMUNION] Reference