abhominable
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
- First attested in the 1300's.
- Alteration of abominable, possible influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”).[1]
- A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc.
- Abandoned in the 1600's[2].
Adjective [edit]
abhominable (comparative more abhominable, superlative most abhominable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of abominable.
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- This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable - Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V-i
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References [edit]
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 3:
- ^ 2004 [1998], Elliott K. Dobbie; Dunmore, C. William, et al., Barnhart, Robert K. editor, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Edinburgh, Scotland: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0550142304, page 4:
