Both Uses
abominable
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My Antonia
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- His abominable muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick.†
Book 1 *abominable = exceptionally bad or detestable
- As piano-playing, it was perhaps abominable, but as music it was something real, vitalized by a sense of rhythm that was stronger than his other physical senses—that not only filled his dark mind, but worried his body incessantly.†
Book 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(abominable) exceptionally bad or intensely disliked
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)