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abhorrest | null |

As a verb abhorrest

is (abhor).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

abhorrest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (abhor)

  • abhor

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (abhorr)
  • To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
  • * 1611 , Romans 12:9, (w):
  • Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
  • (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust.
  • * c. 1604 (William Shakespeare), Othello , act 4, scene 1:
  • It does abhor me now I speak the word.
  • To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
  • (transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
  • * c. 1613 (William Shakespeare), Henry VIII , act 2, scene 4:
  • I utterly abhor , yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge.
  • (obsolete) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse;
  • * (Udall):
  • To abhor from those vices.
  • * (Milton):
  • Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.
  • (obsolete) Differ entirely from.
  • Synonyms

    * hate * detest * loathe * abominate * See also

    References

    * *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----