What's the difference between abominate and loathe?

Abominate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
  • (2) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
  • (3) It's necessary to outline the succession of injustices that Watson has suffered, the abominable luck and ongoing battles, to begin to appreciate his near total absence of rancour.
  • (4) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
  • (5) As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners,” justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people “appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne.” On Monday, a regional parliamentary commission in North-Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is the largest city, will question police and others about the events on New Year’s Eve.
  • (6) The detention facility itself is a human rights abomination, but it’s not just the physical center that is a problem – it is the spirit it embodies.
  • (7) Jules's passing made Edmond "curse and abominate literature" to such an extent that, after describing with clinical precision and agonising detail the gradual collapse of his brother's physical and mental capacities, he decided to abandon the Journal.
  • (8) An exchange of emails released on Monday by the US State Department shows that Clinton was lobbied in May 2009 by a close friend, Brian Greenspun, to take action after a senior figure in the US Jewish community accused the film festival of “inherent antisemitism” and an “abomination”.
  • (9) He describes slavery as an "abominable exercise" but says that time, and history, make seeking any compensation for its legacy hopelessly impractical.
  • (10) Democrats failed on Wednesday to block Republican attempts to cut billions of dollars in food assistance to poor American families, having earlier denounced the plans as an "abomination" and "immoral".
  • (11) Sarah Jackson, deputy regional director of Amnesty International, said: "Even though Uganda's abominable anti-homosexuality act was scrapped on the basis of a technicality, it is a significant victory for Ugandan activists who have campaigned against this law.
  • (12) Others, though, recall abominable experiences and compare the inhumanity of the old NHS with the compassionate, personalised and technically excellent care they received in recent times.
  • (13) They will become the consultants and NHS leaders of the future, and will be unlikely to acquiesce so easily to myriad abominations imposed by politicians for the sheer fun of re-disorganising the service from the top.
  • (14) This abominable and filthy practice of sodomy has resulted in the great continent of Africa being riddled with Aids,” he said.
  • (15) The attitude expressed in Leviticus, that it was an abomination, was the order of the day."
  • (16) This was an absolutely abominable attack, it’s completely unacceptable,” she told reporters on Monday as she departed for a three-day trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
  • (17) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
  • (18) I remember they [legislators] described us as ‘an abomination to God,’” said Harmon.
  • (19) In the meantime, he remains incarcerated in Scheveningen prison, in a suburb of The Hague He has described the cooking in Dutch jail as an "abomination".
  • (20) The more abominably the villains behave, the more admirable they are; there is equal pleasure in the story's joie de vivre and, indeed, its joie de mourir.

Loathe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
  • (v. t.) To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate.
  • (v. i.) To feel disgust or nausea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (2) He also loathed war, and later opposed the Falklands, Gulf and Kosovo campaigns.
  • (3) Mutual loathing (if this is the opinion of trained soldiers, what must it be like among the population?)
  • (4) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
  • (5) The Gogglebox people are all nice(ish) and funny(ish), qualities vital to keep at bay total self-loathing that we are gathered as a family, watching on telly other people watching telly.
  • (6) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
  • (7) Bridget's combination of self-loathing, enthusiasm and hope against the odds struck a chord.
  • (8) We loathe each other," is the latest from his nemesis on that.)
  • (9) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
  • (10) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
  • (11) But anyone who has had to apply for sickness benefits may find that the name triggers – according to one MP – a sense of "fear and loathing".
  • (12) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
  • (13) The ministering of fear: dystopia and loathing at the Republican convention Read more Fortified versions of Soviet “ Zil lanes ” allowed leaders to shuttle safely between venues, behind high fences separating them from the rest of the street.
  • (14) If they did, they are smart,” he offered although, while the manager was loath to admit it, the suspended Cesc Fàbregas had still been missed.
  • (15) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
  • (16) During his time as education secretary, Michael Gove was loathed by the majority of the education professionals.
  • (17) He has been derided in these pages, but that derision is surpassed by the venomous hatred of the Daily Mail , which loathes the Cameron government in any case and particularly despised Mitchell in his previous job.
  • (18) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
  • (19) Meanwhile, Tory backbenchers' cup of loathing for the Lib Dems overflows.
  • (20) Margaret Thatcher’s ideological spite towards a working class that she loathed for their solidarity had robbed huge swaths of the country of their sense of identity.