Nature and the natural decencies were on all tongues; the licences of eye and ear and lip were rejected for abominations unpalatable to any taste more refined than yesterday's.
It was Madonna Beatrice who had drawn that analogy, and there was plenty of justification for it; as also, it must be said, plenty of more immediate precedent for the abominations of this Galeazzo.
As a very special favor, we Twelve to whom is imputed the beginning and the patronizing of such abominations were permitted to design and furnish this place.
But on the June afternoon I have in mind, when I hurried up-town thinking over my pet abominations beginning with C, I was still a fairly civilized being.
He abhors the lying abominations of Judaism, which he finds among his brethren.
Here from altars unpolluted by the abominations of Rome, and free from the besotted mimicry of the Church of England, so called, shall ascend hosannas from the Church and the armies of Israel.
For the hideous abominationsof the slave-market are transferred to the Christian relation, and defecated and cleansed of all their abominations and cruelty thereby.
Alas, that there are now several red and white brick abominations of buildings in this low-built, grey wooden town.
Most Japanese Buddhas are travesties of nature andabominations of art--but this one compels reverence and attracts devotion.
Christianity had to contend for three hundred years to destroy the abominations of heathenism.
After “God had given me that splendid victory which enabled me to get the better of my monkish vocation, the vows, masses and all the other abominations .
Then the abominations of the Pope would speedily be condemned.
The priests were driven into exile, the bishop alone being permitted to carry on “his godless papistical abominations and practices openly in his own residence” (the Castle of Stolpen).
The religion of Israel had degenerated into an artificial religionism, which in pretentious show and empty profession outclassed the abominations of heathendom.
Daniel the prophet had foreseen the desolation and abominations thereof, which comprized the forcible cessation of temple rites, and the desecration of Israel's shrine by pagan conquerors.
The mis-called Age of Reason, and the atheistical abominations culminating in the French Revolution stand as ineffaceable testimony of what man may become when glorying in his denial of God.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
The teachings of his father and the religious influence of his home were great factors in turning Jeremiah's mind to view these abominations with alarm for his people.
Notwithstanding the corruptions by which it became infected in the days of its power and pride, even the worst form of Christianity was infinitely preferable to the abominations of paganism.
The fumes of abominations choked his mental senses, and made him long to escape.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
The public need information respecting the abominations committed at Washington with the sanction of their representatives--abominations which will cease whenever those representatives please.
No wonder that it should bring desire for death, no wonder that a Christian should feel pleased at escaping from the abominations of this earth!
But I know sorrows that are just as crushing, abominations which poison one's life in a still greater degree.
Wast thou one of them, that didst sigh, and afflict thyself for the abominations of the times?
And again, These are they that mourn for the abominations that are done among men (Eze 9:4).
He was for his old companions in their abominations no longer.
I find to this day seven abominations in my heart: 1.
My fourth word is to the lady of kingdoms, the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, and the abominations of the earth.
And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: and even he shall be left to our God, and he shall be as a governor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.
It is spoken of the Philistines, and particularly of Azotus, (where the temple of Dagon was,) and contains a prophecy of the conversion of that people from their bloody sacrifices and abominations to the worship of the true God.
For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
It was thither as to an unclean place, that Josiah caused all the abominations of idolatry to be carried, and to be burnt; comp.
In former times, the victory of the world over the Kingdom of God had been embodied in the fact, that the abominations of sin and idolatry had penetrated into the very temple; compare chap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abominations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
