abhorredadj.

1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico i. f. 1 The frenche men puttynge from them this abhorred name, calle it not the frenche pockes, but the euyl of Naples.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E3^v Hungry wolues continually did howle, At her abhorred face, so filthy and so fowle.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 76 Abhorred villaine, vnnaturall detested brutish villaine. View more context for this quotation

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. i. xvi. 58 The Mischief that accrues to the Church from Idolatry..does ipso facto transform her, who should approve herself the pure Spouse of Christ, into the abhorred condition of an Harlot.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 209 The abhorr'd Crimes he had Committed.

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xliv. 67 When he fled for shelter to the flattering creation of fancy, some abhorred idea always started up amidst the gay vision, and dissolved the pleasing enchantment.

1832 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 320 The abhorred thing which weighed on our fathers like an incubus.

1865 Old Guard May 236/2 A refuge from the abhorred contact with the negroized puritanism which has destroyed our country.

1922 H. E. Palmer Everyday Sentences in Spoken Eng. p. v English is no longer either an abhorred school-subject nor a fascinating literary hobby.

1999 A. Wheatle Brixton Rock 45 Even if the abhorred Flynn was convicted, he guessed he would only get about a year's oats.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 182 How abhorred my imagination is my gorge rises at it.