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- verb Present participle of
abominate .
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Examples
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"Sure, I am all for abominating racism like any other form of odious collectivism... but this hypersensitivity to any politically incorrect use of language is really annoying."
"Who would have thought it? Prince Harry is just a normal bloke in spite of the weird circumstances of his upbringing." Ann Althouse 2009
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It is abominating for the Savitri Erans to compare The Mother and Sri Aurobindo with others and treat them as just one of the many.
Perennial prevarication Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Far from abominating other religions, the Koran says that God sent messengers to all the peoples on earth, and it treats the multitude of faiths as building toward the perfection of Islam.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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It is abominating for the Savitri Erans to compare The Mother and Sri Aurobindo with others and treat them as just one of the many.
Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Theoreticians find anything connected with Theo- as abominating.
Archive 2007-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Theoreticians find anything connected with Theo- as abominating.
Every breath an invocation of the Supramental Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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I came to Germany abominating the English and burning to strike a blow for you.
Greenmantle 2005
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And therefore Artaxerxes, though always abominating other
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Pereilly, and therein abominating the reiteration of marriage and the entering again in the bonds of a nuptial tie, did swear and heartily give himself to the swiftest devil in hell, if he had not rather choose, and would much more willingly undertake the unmaidening or depucelating of a hundred virgins, than the simple drudgery of one widow.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pereilly, and therein abominating the reiteration of marriage and the entering again in the bonds of a nuptial tie, did swear and heartily give himself to the swiftest devil in hell, if he had not rather choose, and would much more willingly undertake the unmaidening or depucelating of a hundred virgins, than the simple drudgery of one widow.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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