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Abhorrers, the name given in 1679 to the persons who expressed their abhorrence at the action of those who had signed petitions urging King Charles II...

Abhor (or Amba Hor) and Mehraela were a brother and sister who were martyrs for the Christian faith. Etymology of the word "Abhor": from Latin abhorrēre...

(/ˈpliːnɪzəm/)—commonly stated as "nature abhors a vacuum", for example by Spinoza—is a hypothesis attributed to Aristotle, later criticized by the atomism...

to the hippies to help combat the drug culture he and the president abhorred. He asked Nixon for a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, to signify...

photography Lord Snowdon - photography Nicolas Lampert- artwork Ajana - artwork Abhor KUK - typography Mourn - typography Vomit BDF - typography Tim Green - recording...

Harper Lee herself refused to attend any performances, because "she abhors anything that trades on the book's fame". To underscore this sentiment, Lee...

major style guides and usage dictionaries, which demonstrate wide variation. To the extent anything approaching a consistent general conflict can be identified...

not ashamed of it and does not abhor it. The “Paramattha Mañjūsā” compares it to a domestic pig which does not abhor filth. Defilements (kilesa) are...

etc. (Ezekiel 18:10–13) Tâ‛ab is rendered the following ways in the KJV abhor, 9 Deu 7:26, Deu 23:7 (2), Job 9:31, Job 30:10, Psa 5:6, Psa 119:163, Amo...

carried out during dinner; this idea was abandoned as supporting officers abhorred the idea of shooting the unarmed Führer. A bomb could be smuggled on Hitler's...

[Muslims] of Bosna are of this Sect, but pay taxes as Christians do; they abhor Images and the sign of the Cross; they circumcise, bringing the Authority...

half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence. I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that the United States is the only...

raise itself in order that man should be challenged to overcome it and to humble it by his abhorring in himself that which is despicable. And "Through the...

rulings assign actions to one of five categories called ahkam: mandatory (fard), recommended (mustahabb), permitted (mubah), abhorred (makruh), and prohibited...

asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen whom he abhorred. Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March...

has been found necessary to relax this severity, in order to conciliate the army." Shah Safi I of Persia is said to have abhorred tobacco, and apparently...

a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging...

speaking, her enemies divide themselves into three classes: first, those who abhor her both as a means and as an end of progress, opposing her openly, avowedly...

perturbed by the return to power of the Tories, whom he described as "people whom, politically, I despise and abhor." He had been tempted to stand for the Liberals...

Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. The Abhorrers—those who thought the Exclusion Bill was abhorrent—were named Tories (after...