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Example sentences for "abomination"

Lexicographically close words:
abolitionize; abominable; abominably; abominate; abominated; abominations; abondance; abone; aboon; aboord
  1. Both Hebrews and Egyptians held it to be an abomination to eat at the same board, or use the same seats or knives.

  2. He waved his hand to me as he went up to Loupart Wood, and I saluted him as a man of fine enthusiasm and good courage in the abomination of desolation which is our battle-ground.

  3. But as a dwelling-place for German troops it is a city of abomination and dreadfulness.

  4. I wondered what her answer would be--this woman imprisoned in darkness, hiding under daily bombardments, alone in the abomination of desolation.

  5. To others it seems the very abomination of desolation.

  6. That their souls may escape the wrath of God, the desolation of abomination which awaits the wicked, both in this world and in the world to come.

  7. The abomination and the horror is so great that I am encouraged and am quite ready to allow that,” etc.

  8. See what an abomination he has wrought and works even to-day!

  9. His abomination for the Pope found vent, as he repeatedly tells us, in his maledictory Paternoster.

  10. He intends “to infuse courage into himself by considering the abomination and horror” of the Pope; and to “hold it up under the devil’s nose.

  11. May God bestow on all pious Christians such a mind, that, when they hear the Mass spoken of, they quake with fear and cross themselves as they would at the sight of some abomination of the devil.

  12. He exhorts the reader to thank God, that “such an abomination has been brought to light,” and “that the great whore of Babylon has been exposed.

  13. We have just heard Luther promise to hold up the Pope’s abomination to the devil’s nose.

  14. Reformer’s tormenting mental experiences, and that he had been actually assailed by accusing thoughts concerning his former share in the abomination of private Masses.

  15. I am quite ready to allow that the Pope’s abomination is, after Christ, my greatest consolation.

  16. The initiate are well aware that this is the chief trick of the sects, whereby they render the Papacy an abomination to simple and otherwise well-disposed folk.

  17. I deem it right to raise my humble voice to convince the citizens of America that the slaveholding states are held in abomination by all those whose opinion ought to be valuable.

  18. Christians, enjoying perfect liberty of conscience, yet possessing no right to breathe one whisper against a system of adultery and blood, which is filling the whole land with abomination and blasphemy!

  19. In the case of the Jewish Temple the "abomination of desolation" had been understood to include the defiling of the altar with swine's flesh.

  20. I remember standing in the middle of it one frosty moonlight night, and it was impossible to believe that there were hundreds of human beings all around me there in the middle of that abomination of desolation.

  21. His spirit had been sorely vexed by hearing, in a certain Aberdonian kirk, the psalmody directed by a pitch-pipe, or some similar instrument, which was to Old Mortality the abomination of abominations.

  22. This is utter abomination and daring impiety," said Morton, unable to contain his indignation.

  23. To call either western is to commit an abomination approaching the use of the word "Frisco.

  24. It means that what was originally intended to be an adequate terminal to the various elevated railroads has become a transportation abomination and a matter of local contempt.

  25. The last abomination of the abominable slave-trade!

  26. Sophronius bowed before his new master, and secretly muttered, in the words of Daniel, "The abomination of desolation is in the holy place.

  27. We are now then come to the threshold of the door of the house of the OLD one; to the door of the mother of harlots, and abomination of the earth.

  28. Short weights and deceit were declared an abomination to the Lord, in fairs and markets.

  29. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

  30. He did also build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem; and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  31. But as to their name, and the grandeur that attended that, it continued with many that were weak, and vanished not, but when the abomination that made them desolate came.

  32. They groaned: the abomination of desolation was laying waste Christian Gaul.

  33. And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  34. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

  35. What guarantee have you that they will not propose to feed you on damper, or some other nameless abomination of the same sort?

  36. The Monk-Calf as a Divine sign of the abomination of Popery and monasticism.

  37. Father, I cannot do otherwise than destroy the Kingdom of the Pope, the Kingdom of abomination and wickedness together with all its train.

  38. This is true, for the abomination which is the Pope, was [according to Daniel ix.

  39. This is the abomination of desolation,” etc.

  40. The remedy for the awful dissoluteness of large portions of society can only be found in the cultivation of such lofty ideas on the relation of the sexes that this abomination shall be scouted with horror.

  41. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

  42. To the man uninitiated in the law that Revelation is to be interpreted by contraries, it would seem more like the Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place if he entered a Scotch Presbyterian, or a Dutch Calvinist, place of worship.

  43. How the Abomination of Desolation can be considered as set up in a Church where every sanctuary is adorned with all that can draw the heart to the Crucified, and raise the thoughts to the imposing ritual of Heaven, is a puzzle to me.

  44. Yet I concealed my inward thoughts from all, that I might not be an abomination to all.

  45. This is 6,200 feet high, and the scenery from the serai is the abomination of desolation--range after range of barren mountains.

  46. And then it occurred to me that Vodki, or whatever the Russian abomination was, followed by a whisky peg, was not a good thing for a Physician to drink, fasting.


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    Other words:
    abomination; allergy; anathema; antagonism; antipathy; atrocity; aversion; bad; bane; bigotry; blight; corruption; damage; desecration; despite; destruction; detriment; disgrace; disgust; dislike; enmity; error; evil; execration; grievance; harm; hate; hatred; havoc; horror; hostility; hurt; ignominy; ill; infamy; infection; iniquity; injury; knavery; loathing; malevolence; malice; misanthropy; mischief; misogyny; nausea; odium; outrage; phobia; pity; poison; pollution; profanation; repugnance; repulsion; revulsion; sacrilege; scandal; shame; shuddering; sin; spite; toxin; venom; vexation; villainy; violation; woe; wrong