perhorresce

present singular third person perhorresces · participle present perhorrescing · participle past perhorresced · past perhorresced

1. ambitransitiveformalrareTo shudder (at).First known use 19th c.

   This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.

   1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii

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   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 […]

   1905, John Dewey, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 15

   The "Messidor" style of new buildings allowed only the Classical straight line, and perhorresced at every curve.

   1930, Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, volume II, page 431