🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

abominação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: abominação

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Abomination/əˌbɒm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O ato de trapacear é visto como uma abominação pela comunidade."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A thing that causes disgust or hatred.

    "The act of cheating was seen as an abomination by the community."
  2. 2

    A feeling of intense disgust or loathing.

    "He expressed his abomination towards the cruel treatment of animals."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'abomination' originates from the Latin 'abominatio', which means 'to shun as an ill omen'. It evolved through Old French before entering Middle English, reflecting a strong moral or religious condemnation of something considered detestable or loathsome.

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