What does perhorresce mean?
Perhorresce means (rare, formal, ambitransitive) To shudder (at)..
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/pəːhəˈɹɛs/ · verb
(rare, formal, ambitransitive) To shudder (at)..
This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.
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 […]
The "Messidor" style of new buildings allowed only the Classical straight line, and perhorresced at every curve.
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Perhorresce means (rare, formal, ambitransitive) To shudder (at)..
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This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.
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