abhor vs abominate

abhor

verb
  • To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward. 

  • To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject. 

abominate

verb
  • To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread. 

  • To dislike strongly. 

adj
  • Abominable; detested. 

How often have the words abhor and abominate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )