abhominable

American  

[ab-hom-uh-nuh-buhl] / æbˈhɒm ə nə bəl /

adjective

Obsolete.

1. abominable.

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Etymology

Origin of abhominable

1325–75; Middle English < Medieval Latin abhominābilis, alteration of Latin abōminābilis abominable, by association with phrase ab homine from man, inhuman

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abhominable

The fables of Atreus, Thiestes, Tereus and Progne signifieth the wicked and abhominable facts wrought and attempted by mortall men.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

May 2nd, I understode of one Vincent Murfyn his abhominable misusing me behinde my back; Mr. Thomas Besbich told me his father is one of the cokes of the Court.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by John Dee

Diddest thou dare to aduenture vppon me, hauyng thy conscyence wounded wyth sutch an abhominable and deadly Treason?

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Incẽse is an abhominable thinge vnto me / I maye not awaie with your newe moones. &c.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Peter Martyr

I haue made a priuie search what priuate Jigmonger of your jolly number hath been the Author of these abhominable ballets written of me.

From Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by Alexander Dyce