Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableUgliness or deformity.
Thou ſhalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no oxe or ſhepe where in is any deformyte, what ſoeuer euell faueredneſſe it be: for that is an abhominacion vnto the Lorde thi God.
1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Deuteronomye xvij:[1], folio xxxj, verso1 more example
This day (good Christian people) shall be declared unto you, the unprofitableness and shameful unhonesty of contention, strife and debate, to the intent, that when you shall see as it were in a table painted before your eyes, the evilfavouredness and deformity of this most detestable vice, your stomachs may be moved to rise against it, and to detest and abhor that sin, which is so much to be hated, and pernicious, and hurtful to all men.
1623, Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook, published 2005, →ISBN, "The Homily Against Contention and Brawling", page 164
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