† abhorrency Obs.
(æbˈhɒrənsɪ)
[f. abhorrent, after nouns in -ncy, ad. L. -ntia; see -ncy. Cf. abhorrence.]
1. The quality, state, or feeling of being abhorrent of, or of holding a thing in hatred and disgust; extreme repugnance or dislike.
| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. 157 Motions simple are..lastly, Motion of Rest or abhorrency of Motion, which is the Cause of many things. 1627 Feltham Resolves ii. lxv. (1677) 297 A vast Prerogative, that man hath over the rest of the Creatures, by only knowing their Inclinations and Abhorrencies. 1659 Jer. Taylor Ductor Dubit. i. i. 21 (2) A natural abhorrency against unnatural lusts. 1660 Boyle New Experim. Phys.-Mech. ii. 41 Nature's abhorrency of a Vacuum. 1661 Origen his Opinions in Phœnix (1721) I. 24 Out of an abhorrency to such Blasphemy. 1690 Locke Educ. Wks. 1812 IX. 100 The first tendency to any injustice..must be suppressed with a shew of wonder and abhorrency, in the parents and governors. 1709 Strype Ann. Ref. xli. 416 The lay people were growing into an abhorrency of those that wore them. |
2. That which excites abhorrence; a thing abhorrent to one; = abhorrence 3.
| 1729 Burkitt On New Test. Heb. x. 38 Backsliders from the gospel are, in a peculiar manner, the abhorrency of the soul of God. |