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Abhominable   Listen
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Abhominable  adj.  Abominable. Note: (A false orthography anciently used; h was foisted into various words; hence abholish, for abolish, etc.) "This is abhominable, which he (Don Armado) would call abominable."






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"Abhominable" Quotes from Famous Books



... too, That hauing neither the gate or Christian, Pagan, Nor Turke, haue so strutted and bellowed, That you would a thought, some of Natures journeymen Had made men, and not made them well, They imitated humanitie, so abhominable: Take heede, auoyde it. players I warrant you my Lord. Ham. And doe you heare? let not your Clowne speake More then is set downe, there be of them I can tell you That will laugh themselues, to set on some Quantitie ...
— The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - The First ('Bad') Quarto • William Shakespeare

... orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det when he should pronounce debt,—d, e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh abbreviated ne. This is abhominable, which he would call abominable,—it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to ...
— Love's Labour's Lost • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]



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