Abominations

Word ABOMINATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Abominations"

What do we mean by abominations?

An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred

A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.

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

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The word "abominations" in example sentences

I'm in, anything that helps wash away memories of the last few abominations is progress for me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, as youths these abominations from the deep are as playful as kittens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some are better, but most, being Joe Weston's abominations from the sixties and seventies, are worse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prince Charming, the hero, is weak and wilful, shifty and immoral, hasty and violent: his two spouses are rivals in abominations as his sons, Amjad and As’ad, are examples of a fraternal affection rarely found in half-brothers by sister-wives. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Necrophilia, pederasty, and other acts were called abominations because they indulge human appetite to a destructive degree. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

So then, many of the things that God calls abominations in the Hebrew/Aramaic Scriptures are, by New Testament Scriptures, declared to be no longer in effect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For they had previously called their abominations the sacred worship of God; but since these are now dragged to light by the word of God, they therefore descend to novel artifices. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Here is the great dishonour they had done to God in profaning his sanctuary; they made the images of their counterfeit deities, which they set up in rivalship with God, and which are here called their abominations and their detestable things (for so they were to God, and so they should have been to them), and these they set up in ❋ Unknown (1721)

Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. ❋ Unknown (1721)

I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, of course, they always miss other "abominations," such as eatingnon-kosher food. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The problem is that he's pissed off all of the Body Purified in doing so, and they are still actively trying to find him and his "abominations" so they can be "purified" a.k.a. killed a la the same way that Philip K. Dick meant "retire" in that famous androids book we all know. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Flatheads -- the ones Ayla always referred to as Clan -- were animals to most people, and children like this were thought of by many as "abominations," half-animal, half-human. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

Ordinances were drawn up "abominations" Fitz-Thedmar calls them (244) for the amelioration of the members, and everything was done that could be done to better their condition. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The "abominations" are by no means confined to the _mother_ in the ❋ Unknown (1913)

Free Trade and free of the "abominations" of which South Carolina specially complained. ❋ Cecil Chesterton (1898)

Ashtoreth and to the "abominations" of Moab and Ammon. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

Later on, however, Maurice did turn out some "pretty fair" biscuits -- that is, the boys thought them good, and they were the ones to say, since it was their appetites that had to be satisfied, not those of some finicky girl who might have turned up her nose in horror at the "abominations" these lads called fine. ❋ George Rathborne (1896)

The ninth chapter was to comfort the faithful Jews, in the midst of the "abominations" against "the covenant," with the prospect of Messiah who would "confirm the covenant." ❋ Unknown (1871)

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