But the feareful, and vnbeleeuing, and theabominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and ſorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, ſhall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimſtone: which is the ſecond death.
1902, John Buchan,The Outgoing of the Tide:
The parish stank of idolatry,abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
Whosoever shall be convicted of theabominable Crime ofBuggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.
Disagreeable or unpleasant.[First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
abominable weather
The prisoners were kept inabominable conditions.
2017 July 8, Zoe Williams, “Fit in my 40s: 'The brute fact is, something must be done'”, inThe Guardian[1]:
I want to go faster on my bike than a person with a beard. I want to be the first to own whatever’s the next spiraliser. I want it all: a carapace of insouciance over rock-hard triceps. This is anabominable thing to want, vain in every sense. But I’m going to set out to do whatever it takes not to decay faster than other people, and report it accurately and fairly.
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Most terms of the second category also have literal meanings closer to that of the first, but are now less common in these uses, as well as marking actions that are not as markedly odious.
