Abhorrence is valid Scrabble Word

Is abhorrence a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for ABHORRENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of abhorring, also ABHORRENCY
a feeling of revulsion; disgusted loathing
Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
hate coupled with disgust
the act of abhorring

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act or state of abhorring; the feeling of one who abhors

Words related to ABHORRENCE

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Words that contain ABHORRENCE

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How to use ABHORRENCE in a sentence

I had no distinct thoughts about her while such scenes lasted, but I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence.
The broad mantle of this one infamy will cover with substantial blackness the radiance of your glory, and change to feelings of abhorrence the present admiration of the world.
From her childhood, as we have seen more than once, she had learned to regard the Prussian character and Prussian designs with abhorrence.
The long continuance of so savage a sentence is proof of the abhorrence in which the crime of rebellion has been held.
Here again, the underlying sentiment is the abhorrence of human recklessness and extravagance.
They held up to ridicule and abhorrence such of their brethren as considered mere toleration as a boon worth accepting.
They can scarcely tolerate us, on account of our abhorrence of slavery.
All their claims, all their sorrows quite forgot, in abhorrence of their dirt, their tawny skins, and the vices the whites have taught them.
For centuries after the new faith had consolidated itself, slavery was regarded without a particle of that deep abhorrence which the possession of man by man excites in us now.
When they again drew it up over his shoulders, he manifested the same symptoms of abhorrence.

And here we have a solution of that paradoxical feeling of interest and abhorrence, which we experience in such a character as King Richard.
Her partiality for the man who was the object of his unbounded abhorrence, appeared to him as the last persecution of a malicious destiny.
I did not indeed feel that aversion and abhorrence to the men which are commonly entertained.
I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
I repeat, that this unhappy man ought personally to be the object rather of our pity than our abhorrence, for he failed in his ignorance, and from mistaken notions of honour.
Your wife has deserted you, has fled in abhorrence of you.
The Roman services were no objects to him of abhorrence or indifference.
She had chosen desperation, and she thought herself very brave because she was just brave enough to fly from her abhorrence.
For State interference in the affairs of everyday life it feels nothing but abhorrence.
The repugnance to this mutually shared future which had once made her recoil from it was a trivial thing to the abhorrence of it that was now hers.
Her majesty expressed her sympathy for Irish suffering, and her abhorrence of Irish crime.
No further punishment was, however, for the present inflicted upon her, but, the first burst of rage over, she was treated with silent abhorrence.
Any one who would willingly destroy it, I rejoice to know, would be looked upon with abhorrence.
They must have shuddered in abhorrence at those strange forms of gods which rose about them on every hand.
Florence herself, when the idea of the marriage was first suggested to her by her mother, was only eighteen, and received it with awe rather than with pleasure or abhorrence.
These fearless spirits, who were instinctively imbued with an abhorrence of the Indians, heeded little, however, whether they had to make war on them, or the wild beasts.
Manifestations of national abhorrence and condemnation of that inhuman traffic and of slavery in general appeared during the first quarter of this century.
Of all classes of men, I do not know any who have such an abhorrence for the poorhouse as the sailor class.
Saratoga? We have never been there, but we have an abhorrence for a great fashionable crowd.

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