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English
Etymology
From abhorrence + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
abhorrency (plural abhorrencies)
- (obsolete) Aberrancy. [1]
- (obsolete) Quality of being abhorrent; feeling of abhorrence. [1]
- (obsolete) something that elicits abhorrence; a detestable thing. [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abhorrency”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.