Dismay vs Abomination - What's the difference?
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A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
* Bible, Josh. i. 9
* Fairfax
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
* Spenser
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
* 1592 , , III. iii. 1:
An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing.
(obsolete) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.
That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones.
* Antony, most large in his abominations . Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III-vi
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Dismay is a related term of abomination.
As nouns the difference between dismay and abomination
is that dismay is a sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation while abomination is an abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit .As a verb dismay
is to disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.dismay
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(en verb)- Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed .
- What words be these? What fears do you dismay ?
- Do not dismay yourself for this.
- Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
