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1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire:
This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance:
In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
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