The phrase "abhorrence of war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong feeling of disgust or hatred towards war.
Example: "Her abhorrence of war was evident in her passionate speeches advocating for peace."
Alternatives: "hatred of war" or "disgust for war."
Despite a profound abhorrence of war, Mr. Hedges also acknowledges a strange attraction.
Thomas More tells his king: "As a humanist I have an abhorrence of war".
To read in the pictures, as Woolf does, only what confirms a general abhorrence of war is to stand back from an engagement with Spain as a country with a history.
And abhorrence of war is an integral component of deterrence — the other half of armed suasion.
Which is really just boils down to an abhorrence of war, which is important, valid, necessary, essential, and true, but is as old as war itself.
Make it plain that, in him, abhorrence of the war of the moment is as true an expression of devotion to patriotic duty as heroism in uniform.
On a general level, she articulates an "opposition to monarchical government, disapproval of class distinction, abhorrence of slavery and war and their concomitant cruelties" similar to that in her historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830).
Representative Ron Paul of Texas stuck to the themes that have long defined him, an abhorrence of money printing, making war, corporate subsidies and the role of government beyond the courts and defense.
With the second world war, his critical spirit and abhorrence of violence led him into the Friends Ambulance Unit, with which he served in the Middle East, and, in 1944, in Greece, along with a stim ulating group of pacifists, including Donald Swann (obituary, March 25 1994).
Two young men who have just returned from war meet one night at a college party and discover that their mutual abhorrence of what they have been through has led them to a deep loathing of the politicians who caused it.
All have voiced abhorrence of racial discrimination.
