Abomination

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abomination \A*bom`i*na"tion\, n. [OE. abominacioun, -cion, F.
     abominatio. See {Abominate}.]
     1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence;
        detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in
        abomination.
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     2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or
        shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust
        and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
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              Antony, most large in his abominations. --Shak.
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     3. A cause of pollution or wickedness.
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     Syn: Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion;
          loathsomeness; odiousness. --Sir W. Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abomination
       n 1: a person who is loathsome or disgusting
       2: hate coupled with disgust [syn: {abhorrence}, {detestation},
           {execration}, {loathing}, {odium}]
       3: an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses
          disgust or abhorence; "his treatment of the children is an
          abomination"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "abomination":
     Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, allergy, anathema, annoyance,
     antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, atrocity, aversion, bad,
     bane, befoulment, besmirchment, bete noire, bigotry, blight, bogey,
     bugaboo, bugbear, cold sweat, contamination, contempt, corruption,
     creeping flesh, crying evil, damage, defilement, desecration,
     despite, despitefulness, despoliation, destruction, detestation,
     detriment, dirtying, disdain, disfavor, disgrace, disgust, dislike,
     disrelish, distaste, enmity, error, evil, execration, grievance,
     harm, hate, hatred, havoc, horror, hostility, hurt, ignominy, ill,
     incubus, infamy, infection, iniquity, injury, knavery, loathing,
     malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, mischief,
     misogyny, mortal horror, nausea, obliquity, odium, outrage,
     peccancy, peeve, pest, pet peeve, phobia, pity, plague, poison,
     pollution, profanation, race hatred, racism, reprobacy, repugnance,
     repulsion, revulsion, ritual uncleanness, sacrilege, scandal,
     scorn, shame, shuddering, sin, soiling, spite, spitefulness,
     terrible thing, the worst, toxin, trial, venom, vexation,
     vials of hate, vials of wrath, villainy, violation, woe, wrong,
     xenophobia
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Abomination
     This word is used, (1.) To express the idea that the Egyptians
     considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers
     (Gen. 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice,
     holding it unlawful to eat or drink with foreigners (John 18:28;
     Acts 10:28; 11:3).
     
       (2.) Every shepherd was "an abomination" unto the Egyptians
     (Gen. 46:34). This aversion to shepherds, such as the Hebrews,
     arose probably from the fact that Lower and Middle Egypt had
     formerly been held in oppressive subjection by a tribe of nomad
     shepherds (the Hyksos), who had only recently been expelled, and
     partly also perhaps from this other fact that the Egyptians
     detested the lawless habits of these wandering shepherds.
     
       (3.) Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague, that while he
     refused the demand of Moses, he offered a compromise, granting
     to the Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer
     their sacrifices in Egypt. This permission could not be
     accepted, because Moses said they would have to sacrifice "the
     abomination of the Egyptians" (Ex. 8:26); i.e., the cow or ox,
     which all the Egyptians held as sacred, and which they regarded
     it as sacrilegious to kill.
     
       (4.) Daniel (11:31), in that section of his prophecies which
     is generally interpreted as referring to the fearful calamities
     that were to fall on the Jews in the time of Antiochus
     Epiphanes, says, "And they shall place the abomination that
     maketh desolate." Antiochus Epiphanes caused an altar to be
     erected on the altar of burnt-offering, on which sacrifices were
     offered to Jupiter Olympus. (Comp. 1 Macc. 1:57). This was the
     abomination of the desolation of Jerusalem. The same language is
     employed in Dan. 9:27 (comp. Matt. 24:15), where the reference
     is probably to the image-crowned standards which the Romans set
     up at the east gate of the temple (A.D. 70), and to which they
     paid idolatrous honours. "Almost the entire religion of the
     Roman camp consisted in worshipping the ensign, swearing by the
     ensign, and in preferring the ensign before all other gods."
     These ensigns were an "abomination" to the Jews, the
     "abomination of desolation."
     
       This word is also used symbolically of sin in general (Isa.
     66:3); an idol (44:19); the ceremonies of the apostate Church of
     Rome (Rev. 17:4); a detestable act (Ezek. 22:11).