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Definition of Abomination

1. Noun. A person who is loathsome or disgusting.

2. Noun. Hate coupled with disgust.

3. Noun. An action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence. "His treatment of the children is an abomination"

Definition of Abomination

1. n. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

Definition of Abomination

1. Noun. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing. ¹

2. Noun. That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abomination

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abomination

abomasus abomasuses abominable abominable-snowman abominable snowman abominable snowmen abominableness abominably abominacioun abominaciouns

abominate abominated abominates abominating abominatio abomination (current term) abominationly abominations abominator abominators

abomine abomined abomines abomining aboon aboord aboot aborad aboral

Literary usage of Abomination

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

1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Ac abomination of the Egyptians 26.not commit (any) of these abominations; ... Neither shalt thou bring an abomination 12:31.for every abomination to ..."

2. Dissertations on the prophecies, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and by Thomas Newton (1766)
"The Roman army is called the abomination for its ... affirms (i) every idol and every image of a man was called an abomination among the Jews. ..."

3. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Can you think these slave-laws anything but an abomination to a just God? Can you think this internal slave-trade to be anything but an abomination in his ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... had that abomination — retouching of the negative—been avoided. As showing what a grand pencil is sunlight to the artist, we may mention the exhibits of ..."

5. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
""QUIET" BREATHING USED BY WEAKLINGS—AN abomination—DOES NOT PURIFY ALL OF BLOOD SENT TO LUNGS—OTHER COMMON ERRORS IN REGARD TO BREATHING. ..."

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