abomination
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- abhomination (obsolete)
- abominacioun (obsolete)
Etymology [edit]
- First attested around 1350.
- From Middle English abominacioun, from Middle French abomination (“horror, disgust”), from Late Latin abōminātiō (“abomination”); ab (“away from”) + ōminārī (“prophesy, foreboding”), from ōmin (“omen”)[1].
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Noun [edit]
abomination (plural abominations)
- An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.][2]
- The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
- (obsolete) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution. [Attested from around (1350 - 1470) to the late 15th century.][2]
- That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
- Antony, most large in his abominations. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III-vi
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Translations [edit]
the feeling of extreme disgust
something abominable
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References [edit]
- ^ 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:
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 6:
- abomination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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Noun [edit]
abomination f (plural abominations)
- Something vile and abominable; an abomination.
- (chiefly religion) Revulsion, abomination, disgust.
