All 3 Uses of
abominable
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- He turned a wrinkled and abominable little visage to every passer-by, and to the circle of children that soon gathered round, and to Hepzibah's shop-door, and upward to the arched window, whence Phoebe and Clifford were looking down.†
Chpt 11abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- The house, in my view, is expressive of that odious and abominable Past, with all its bad influences, against which I have just been declaiming.†
Chpt 12 *
- And, beneath the show of a marble palace, that pool of stagnant water, foul with many impurities, and, perhaps, tinged with blood,—that secret abomination, above which, possibly, he may say his prayers, without remembering it,—is this man's miserable soul!†
Chpt 15abomination = something that is exceptionally bad or detestable
Definition:
exceptionally bad or intensely disliked