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Abominated

Abominate \A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.

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abominated

vb. (en-past of: abominate)

Usage examples of "abominated".

His enemy was the world, the mass, which confounds us in a lump, which has breathed on her whom we have selected, whom we cannot, can never, rub quite clear of her contact with the abominated crowd.

Nietzsche took pains to proclaim his Polish origin and abominated Germany, a country, according to him, of middle-class pedants.

He knew that the resolute soul abominated inactive people, so, under the contagious influence of dominant will-power, he began several new pieces.

He abominated revolutionists, with the instinctive fear of all the rich who have built up a fortune and remember their humble beginnings.

But, in fact, a thing had occurred to vex him more than a descent upon the pavement or damage to his waistcoat's whiteness: he abominated the thought of an altercation with a member of the mob.

Many of the kind have added their spot to the outcasts abominated for uncleanness--in holy unction.

She abominated particularly the taps, and longed to be obliged in all weathers to go out to the well and wind up the bucket.

She abominated also the dust-bin, for it was a pleasure to be compelled - so at least she thought it now - to walk down to the muck-heap and throw on it what the pig could not eat.

Jean de Luz, if Riette would consent to reside there, Lord Fleetwood's absence and the neighbourhood of the war were reckoned on to preserve his yokefellow from any fit of the abominated softness which she had felt in one premonitory tremor during their late interview, and deemed it vile compared with the life of action and service beside, almost beside, her brother, sharing his dangers at least.