All 4 Uses of
abominable
in
The Chrysalids
- A baby which, if you were to have your way, would grow up to breed, and, breeding, spread pollution until all around us there would be mutants and abominations.†
Chpt 7 *
- …order that it might destroy the divine order and turn our land, the stronghold of God's will upon Earth, into a lewd chaos like the Fringes; trying to make it a place without the law, like the lands in the South that Uncle Axel had spoken of, where the plants and the animals and the almost-human beings, too, brought forth travesties; where true stock had given place to unnameable creatures, abominable growths flourished, and the spirits of evil mocked the Lord with obscene fantasies.†
Chpt 8
- They were short, fat, burnt with smoky flames, and smelt abominably, but they enabled me to see the surroundings.†
Chpt 15
- 'A baby — a baby which …. would grow to breed, and breeding, spread pollution until all around us there would be mutants and abominations.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(abominable) exceptionally bad or detestable