Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
abhorrent thoughts
Contrary to something; discordant.
This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Borrowed from Latin abhorrēns, abhorrēntis, present active participle of abhorreō (“abhor”). Equivalent to abhor + -ent.
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