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abomination|əˌbɒmɪˈneɪʃən|
Also 4–7 abhominacioun, abhomynacion.
[a. Fr. abomination (13th c. in Litt.) ad. L. abōminātiōn-em n. of action f. abōminā-ri: see abominable.]
1. The feeling or state of mind of combined disgust and hatred; abhorrence, detestation, loathing.
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 7 Alle resonable men have greet abhominacioun of bodili sodomie. 1483Caxton G. Leg. 431 [He] vysyted the hospytalles..wythout abhomynacion of dyfformyte ne of ordure or fylthe of somme pacyente. 1525–30More De quat. Nouis. Wks. 1557, 96 We se gret cause to haue it in hatred & abominacion. 1611Bible 1 Sam. xiii. 4 Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. Mod. To regard smoking with abomination.
†b. Physical disgust, nausea. [So in early Fr.] Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. (1495) vii. viii. 228 Yf gedynes comyth of the stomak the pacyent felyth abhomynacion and wamlynge.
†2. A state or condition giving rise to intense disgust; defilement, pollution, abominableness. Obs.
1413Lydgate Pylg. Sowle (1483) iii. i. 49 What stynke and corrupcion what fylthe and abhomynacion is there withynne the helle. 1480Rob. the Devyll 31 I desyre youe to heare my confession Of my greate synnes the abhomynacon.
3. An action, or custom, abominable, detestable, odious, shamefully wicked or vile; a degrading vice.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1173 (1864) 73 He vsed abominaciones of idolatrye. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 88 He..Wolde never wryte in non of his sermouns Of such unkynde abhominaciouns. 1494Fabyan vi. clxxxi. 180 Y⊇ great abhomynacion of thyse tyranous Danys, that beat, robbed, and slewe y⊇ innosent people without mercy. 1549Latimer 7 Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1869) 207 What an abhominacion is it? the foulest that euer was to attribute to mans worke oure saluacion. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. vi. 94 Th' adulterous Anthony, most large In his abhominations. 1611Bible Mal. ii. 11 An abomination is committed in Israel. 1682Burnet Rts. of Princes v. 159 He was not guilty of these monstrous Abominations. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) III. xxiii. 355 Ninety-five theses, many of which were directed against the special abominations of Tetzel.
4. An object that excites disgust and hatred; a thing detested or detestable. (Followed by unto, to.) esp. in the Bible, a cause of pollution, an idol.
1366Mandeville (1839) xxviii. 282 Fro him comethe out smoke and stynk and fuyr, and so moche Abhomynacioun, that unethe no man may there endure. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxiv. 15 Ȝe schulen se the abhomynacioun of discomfort that is seid of Danyel, the prophete. 1535Coverdale 2 Kings xxiii. 13 Malcom the abhominacion of the children of Ammon. 1611Bible Prov. xii. 22 Lying lippes are abomination to the Lord. 1794Sullivan View of Nat. II. Nor was it until the days of Hezekiah..that this abomination [the brazen serpent] was torn from the land. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. II. v. 59 Brewed up flax-seed and lime-juice and quinine and willow-stems into an abomination which was dignified as beer.
†5. loosely. An unpleasant or disgusting amount, etc. Obs.
1604Dekker Honest Wh. (1873) 8, I ha spent an abomination this voyage. |