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abhorring



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All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.

From Washington Times Jul. 21, 2020

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post Apr. 18, 2017

The Legion sought a more national and collective or communal basis for the economy, while abhorring the materialism of capitalism and of socialism.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2013

Thus, practically abhorring the name of Dissent, Methodists became Dissenters themselves, and certainly as a sect put forth, as the above extract teaches, the strongest claims to a Divine origin and sanction.

From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie



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