abhorrer
English
Etymology
abhor + -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əbˈhɔː.ɹə/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
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Noun
abhorrer (plural abhorrers)
- One who abhors. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1839, Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring, editor, The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected; under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring, page 450:
- Be they what they may, the barbarities of the Catholics of those times had their limits: but of this abhorrer of Catholic barbarities, the barbarity has, in respect of the number of intended victims, no limits other than those of time.
- 1948, Joseph Wood Krutch, Henry David Thoreau, page 236:
- The “even be killed” is not comic, for Thoreau the individualist must have found it in theory as difficult to imagine himself dying for others as Thoreau the abhorrer of violence found it difficult to imagine himself killing another individual.
- 1959, Dorothy Sterling, Mary Jane, page 83:
- Hate, detester, abhorrer. Enemy, ennemi. With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.
- 1970, Robert Leckie, Warfare, page 128:
- Thus, chiefly through the efforts of this lover of peace and abhorrer of war, the art of maiming and killing became ever more efficient.
- 1999, Guy A. J. Tops et alios, Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59:
- The problem of usage comes in for abhorrer in various ways: There are 63 entries with the root abhor, including 3 abhorrer, 17 abhorrence.
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- (historical, sometimes capitalized) A nickname given in the early 17th century to signatories of addresses of a petition to reconvene parliament, addressed to Charles II. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1890, Thomas de Quincey, David Masson, editor, The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, page 389:
- Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so (according to Rapin) do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer […]
- 1949, Felix Morley, The Power in the People, page 76:
- Whether “Petitioner” or “Abhorrer”, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested […]
- 1966, Robert Gourlay, General Introduction to Statistical Account of Upper Canada=page=1:
- He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.
- 1999, Guy A. J. Tops et alios, Thinking English Grammar: to honour Xavier Dekeyser, page 59:
- The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory.
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Related terms
- abhor
- abhorred
- abhorrence
- abhorrency
- abhorrent
- abhorrently
- abhorrible
- abhorring
References
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhorrer”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.
Anagrams
- harborer
French
Etymology
From Middle French abhorrer, borrowed from Latin abhorreo, abhorrere. Cf. also the Old French inherited form avourrir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bɔ.ʁe/
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Verb
abhorrer
- to abominate, to abhor, to loathe
Conjugation
Conjugation of abhorrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | abhorrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | abhorrant /a.bɔ.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abhorré /a.bɔ.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | abhorre /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorres /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorre /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorrons /a.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/ | abhorrez /a.bɔ.ʁe/ | abhorrent /a.bɔʁ/ |
| imperfect | abhorrais /a.bɔ.ʁɛ/ | abhorrais /a.bɔ.ʁɛ/ | abhorrait /a.bɔ.ʁɛ/ | abhorrions /a.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ | abhorriez /a.bɔ.ʁje/ | abhorraient /a.bɔ.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | abhorrai /a.bɔ.ʁe/ | abhorras /a.bɔ.ʁa/ | abhorra /a.bɔ.ʁa/ | abhorrâmes /a.bɔ.ʁam/ | abhorrâtes /a.bɔ.ʁat/ | abhorrèrent /a.bɔ.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | abhorrerai /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/ | abhorreras /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/ | abhorrera /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁa/ | abhorrerons /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | abhorrerez /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁe/ | abhorreront /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | abhorrerais /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | abhorrerais /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | abhorrerait /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | abhorrerions /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | abhorreriez /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁje/ | abhorreraient /a.bɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | abhorre /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorres /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorre /a.bɔʁ/ | abhorrions /a.bɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ | abhorriez /a.bɔ.ʁje/ | abhorrent /a.bɔʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | abhorrasse /a.bɔ.ʁas/ | abhorrasses /a.bɔ.ʁas/ | abhorrât /a.bɔ.ʁa/ | abhorrassions /a.bɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | abhorrassiez /a.bɔ.ʁa.sje/ | abhorrassent /a.bɔ.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abhorre /a.bɔʁ/ | — | abhorrons /a.bɔ.ʁɔ̃/ | abhorrez /a.bɔ.ʁe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “abhorrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abhorrēre, present active infinitive of abhorreō. Displaced earlier avourrir. First attested in 1327.
Verb
abhorrer
- to abhor
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of abhorrer
| infinitive | simple | abhorrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | abhorrant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abhorré | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | abhorre | abhorres | abhorre | abhorrons | abhorrez | abhorrent |
| imperfect | abhorrois, abhorroys | abhorrois, abhorroys | abhorroit, abhorroyt | abhorrions, abhorryons | abhorriez, abhorryez | abhorroient, abhorroyent | |
| past historic | abhorra | abhorras | abhorra | abhorrasmes | abhorrastes | abhorrerent | |
| future | abhorrerai, abhorreray | abhorreras | abhorrera | abhorrerons | abhorrerez | abhorreront | |
| conditional | abhorrerois, abhorreroys | abhorrerois, abhorreroys | abhorreroit, abhorreroyt | abhorrerions, abhorreryons | abhorreriez, abhorreryez | abhorreroient, abhorreroyent | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | abhorre | abhorres | abhorre | abhorrons | abhorrez | abhorrent |
| imperfect | abhorrasse | abhorrasses | abhorrast | abhorrassions | abhorrassiez | abhorrassent | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abhorre | — | abhorrons | abhorrez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Descendants
- French: abhorrer