Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who abominates or detests.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one who hates or loathes

Etymologies

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abominate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • The abominator Ziani Vaatzes together with the genius sociopath Daurenja is building siege engines of all kinds.

    K.J. Parker - The Escapement (Book Review) 2008

  • The abominator Ziani Vaatzes together with the genius sociopath Daurenja is building siege engines of all kinds.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • It's just that if there are people willing to pay $400-$600 for abominations that look like they take no time or talent, then let me be that abominator.

    What $1,000 Gets You In Texas 2010

  • I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the

    Old Mortality 2004

  • I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the Wallace Inn, to furnish me with information corrective of the facts which I learned from others.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the Wallace Inn, to furnish me with information corrective of the facts which I learned from others.

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

  • Once again we see the disgusting blasphemous heresy that happen when Americans get their hands on the story of Jesus and try to make it into a popular form in order to appeal to the ignorant masses, dumbing it down to the common lowest abominator.

    Manuel Stimulation Manuel Estimulo 2008

  • a vegetable dieter, and Mr. Galen Cornaro, an abominator of wine, and a dyspeptic follower of Kitchener and Abernethy -- a trio of singularities that would afford excellent materials for my friend Richard Peake, the dramatist, in mixing up a new _monopolylogue_ for that facetious child of whim and wit, the inimitable Charles Mathews.

    The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

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