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Definition of Abominate

1. Verb. Find repugnant. "Sam and Sue abominate the movie "; "She abhors cats"

Definition of Abominate

1. v. t. To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Definition of Abominate

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Abominable; detested ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To feel disgust towards; to abhor; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abominate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abominate

Literary usage of Abominate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see HATE, ABHOR, abominate. 2. See LIKE. 2. detriment; spec, sacrifice (cant), cost, hurt, forfeiture, average, ..."

2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... stories—Another kind of James— The thunder-storm—Yearning ladies and melancholy sinners—Hindlegs—Probable murder—"I abominate the sight of it! ..."

3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... force and violence) moft ready and willing to perform their duties accordingly ; and that they do abominate all actions or opinions tending to popery, ..."

4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"The Turk fell into a great rapture in their praise and commendation. Above all creatures, the Turks abominate a swine. A RELATION OF DIVERS TURKISH ..."

5. A Lexicon Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, James Morris Whiton (1891)
"... together: of an abominate, abhor, loathe: stronger than pea/oi, to ex- astringent taste, in Pass., ..."

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