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Meanings of abominate in English

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abominar

To detest on a high degree; to hate completely.

        abominar
        Usage of abominate in English
        1
        The Greenlander detests turtle soup as much as we abominate train oil.
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19,...
        2
        Frankly, I used you as an illustration of the evils I abominate.'
        The Odd Women
        3
        I abominate all men; I abominate them, because I know them so well.
        Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
        4
        I must interrupt the passage, most fervently to deprecate and abominate the sequel:-
        The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
        5
        As for the Women students, they one and all abominate it.
        On The Art of Reading
        6
        I abominate the uninitiated vulgar, and keep them at a distance.
        The Works of Horace
        7
        These beasts abominate a screaming woman, or any other undue noise.
        The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
        8
        You see you've identified yourself with a school I particularly abominate.
        The Divine Fire
        9
        Even their own furred kittlings, friends, and relations would abominate 'em.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
        10
        I don't know whether I most admire or most abominate you!
        A Passionate Pilgrim
        11
        I shall abominate you, I shall not let you come into my sight!
        Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
        12
        A toast in her day, and quite notably good-looking-thoughafter a style I abominate.
        Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
        13
        A great many people, I know, abominate the roadside sign.
        The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
        14
        I mean to dislike with propriety, and gently to abominate-Mr.
        Hard Cash
        15
        I do then utterly despise, scorn, and abominate him, and all such as him.
        La Vendée
        16
        They're from Tomkins's, and we girls just abominate his things.
        Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
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