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noun
An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
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This declaration (as is so often the case in religious matters) comes most forcefully from those with the least expertise in the matter, in this case betraying their ignorance of the fact that God nowhere in Scripture expresses an opinion about this, and the oft-cited reference to "abomination" refers to certain tribal customs and preferences, not divine judgment.
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There are objections to it on the right, on religious grounds, as violating the natural order and the trinity of father-mother-baby, or as being part of a slippery slope that would lead to abominations like human cloning.
They're not about to yell at us to bring a halt to that abomination which is war.
It was Gujarat, home of Hasmukhbhai Khorabhai and his desperate family, which stirred the ire of Gandhi in 1901 when he started to bring attention to the abomination and injustice that is manual scavenging.
If God our Maker has made us profane, to be an abomination to God's chosen people, still we gather and still we love God.
After that I guess it's the cannibal merit badge," Swanson cut in, adding that the Boy Scouts "are trying to add abomination on abomination, effectively going into God's word, trying to find the thing that God really, really, really hates the most.
Governments have twisted words to sanitise abomination and obscure outrage.
"How does she go from Victor Krum, a charming international quidditch seeker to the abomination JKR calls a relationship".
The eight boys and girls, between 16 and 21, were visiting Ward from South Korea, where people of mixed races are considered everything from a curiosity to an abomination.
The show is packed with references tailor-made for the locals, from Brocato's lemon ices to the bread pudding at Lil Dizzy's, from the difficulty of staffing a restaurant in the months after the hurricane to the abomination of imported crawfish.
The recruitment strategies of ISIS are based on presenting themselves as an organized and cohesive resistance to this abomination.
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