Abhominable

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:35:00

Ab*hom"i*na*ble (#), a.

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. Shak. Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1.

 

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