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Webster 1913 Edition


Abhominable

Ab-hom′i-na-ble

,
Adj.
Abominable.
[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
.
Shakespeare

Definition 2024


abhominable

abhominable

English

Adjective

abhominable (comparative more abhominable, superlative most abhominable)

  1. Obsolete form of abominable.
    • 1597, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene I:
      This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable.

References

  1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 3
  2. Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 4