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Abomination   /əbˌɑmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Abomination  n.  
1.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
2.
That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. "Antony, most large in his abominations."
3.
A cause of pollution or wickedness.
Synonyms: Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness.





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"Abomination" Quotes from Famous Books



... also to have entered into some examination of the specific prophecies; for he objects to the application of the words "the abomination of desolation" to other objects than that which he considers its original meaning. See Hieronym. on Matt. xxiv. 15, the reference to which is given ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... of your purple, Jezebel; your diadem will be trodden under foot. The pains of a woman in travail will be as joys unto yours. There will be not enough stones to throw at you, and the abomination of your lust will bellow, ...
— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus
... described the miserably nervous feebleness of the man with scathing contempt, her tone made evil deeds of his shortcomings, her scorn made his weakness a black crime; her jealous anger fastened upon Francesca Campodonico and tore her honour to shreds and her virtues to rags of abomination; and her flaming pride blazed out in searing hatred and contempt for the coward who had struck her in ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... a gentleman in the country-side, but have no acquaintance with him,' answered Mr. Trumbull; 'he is, as I have heard, a Papist; for the whore that sitteth on the seven hills ceaseth not yet to pour forth the cup of her abomination ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing, my utter scorn and contempt. When I am hungry, I eat; when thirsty, drink. Wine and viands, taken for society, or to stimulate conversation, tend only to dissipation, ...
— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton


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