abomination

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[7] Ezekiel goes to state that the Sodomites committed abomination, with the Hebrew word used here being tow'ebah.

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  1. noun Abhorrence; disgust.
  2. noun A cause of abhorrence or disgust.

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  • Some people are going to see this as an abomination, as the worst thing, as just awful. —  Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
  • Oh! lazy abomination, your name is—artistic conditions. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
  • They tweak the rules all the time, yet this abomination is still there.
  • I would hope that any 2009 legislation will address once and for all the issue of the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax by completely doing away with the abomination, as the Democrats attempted to do with Chuck Rangel's mis-named "mother of all tax reforms" back in the fall of —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • But otherwise, this abomination is not worth more than one watch. —  Irish Blogs
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  1. from Middle English abominacion, abhominacioun, abhominacyon, from Old French abominacion, from Latin abominatio(n-), from abominari, abhor: see abominate, v.
 

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