1992, Peter Hathaway Capstick, The African Adventurers:
He didn’t like pig sticking and abhored horses.
2004, Edward P. Jones, Lost in the City:
Despite something in him that abhored backing down from any position, [...]
2004, Thomas J Cottle, When the Music Stopped
The evening began with a ritual I abhored.
[...]
My parents would have abhored the idea of a dinner guest thanking them by e-mail, a mode of communication, mercifully, neither of them lived long enough to encounter.