[f. ABHOR v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of shrinking from with horror; detestation, repugnance, disgust; = ABHORRENCE 1.
1530. Palsgr., 193. Abhorryng, horreur s.f.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 269. An vtter disliking and abhorring of the things which before they tooke pleasure in.
1607. Shaks., Coriol., I. i. 172. He that will give good words to thee, wil flatter Beneath abhorring.
1643. Milton, Divorce, viii. 38 (1851). A certain religious aversation and abhorring, which can no way sort with marriage.
1860. Trench, Serm. in Westm., Abbey, v. 53. That state may be one in itself sufficient to provoke abhorring.
2. That which causes abhorrence or horror; an object of disgust; = ABHORRENCE 3.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., V. ii. 60. Lay me starke-naked, and let the water-Flies Blow me into abhorring.
1611. Bible, Is. lxvi. 24. They shall be an abhorring vnto all flesh.
1862. Trench, Miracles, xxix. 414. When it was become an abhorring even to them that had loved it best.
