perhorresce

English

Etymology

From Latin perhorrēscere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəːhəˈɹɛs/

Verb

perhorresce (third-person singular simple present perhorresces, present participle perhorrescing, simple past and past participle perhorresced)

1. (rare, formal, transitive, intransitive) To shudder (at). [from 19th c.]
   • 1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii:

     This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.

   • 1905, John Dewey, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 15:

     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 […]

   • 1930, Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, volume II, page 431:

     The "Messidor" style of new buildings allowed only the Classical straight line, and perhorresced at every curve.

Latin

Verb

perhorrēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perhorrēscō