Dicţionar englez-român |
ABHORRENCE
Pronunție (USA): | (GB): |
Traducere în limba română
abhorrence substantiv
1. (of, to) scârbă, silă, oroare (de), aversiune, dezgust, ură, dispret (pentru, faţă de);
to hold in abhorrence a nutri scârbă / aversiune faţă de.
2. urâciune, lucru care provoacă scârbă etc.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form?
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But it was a hope shortly checked by other considerations, and she soon felt that even her vanity was insufficient, when required to depend on his affection for her—for a woman who had already refused him—as able to overcome a sentiment so natural as abhorrence against relationship with Wickham.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)