Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance.
De Quincey.
A*bey"an*cy (&?;), n. Abeyance. [R.] Hawthorne.
A*bey"ant (&?;), a. Being in a state of abeyance.
||Ab"hal (&?;), n. The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.
Ab*hom"i*na*ble (&?;), a. Abominable. [A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc.]
This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable.
Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1.
Ab*hom`i*nal (&?;), a. [L. ab away from + homo, hominis, man.] Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.
Ab*hor" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abhorred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Abhorring.] [L. abhorrere; ab + horrere to bristle, shiver, shudder: cf. F. abhorrer. See Horrid.] 1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Rom. xii. 9.