abominatorn.

1671 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper et al. Atlas Chinensis 44 The three and fiftieth Zjenzucung, a Lord of small Stature, wearing short Hair, but of an acute Wit and profound Understanding, and abominator of Gaming and Drink.

1680 Honest Hodge & Ralph 29 He is an Abominator of all Cant.

1751 B. Holloway Originals Physical & Theol. II. 277 He had been all along an Hebrew confess'd (that is, an Abominator of Idols).

1755 D. Swift Ess. Swift ix. 187 He was an Enemy to the Revolution, an Abominator of King William, a Friend to Louis the XIVth, a Jacobite and a Papist.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 28 More than one non-juring bishop, whose authority and income was upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire.

1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 293 Abominators of all close, cachet, muffled..proceedings.

1896 Times-Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 30 July Another abominator of men has acquired a terrace of houses, with designs upon obtaining the whole street, with the object of founding a colony of women occupiers.

1938 Classical Q. 32 142 The impartiality towards the tyrant and the tyrant's party..is incompatible with the censorious abominator of tyranny.

1987 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 12 Apr. 4 Margaret Thatcher is a brilliant electioneering politician and a sincere abominator of the Soviet system of government.

1996 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 25 July e1 All that Mitford represented—muckraker, old lefty, institution-wrecker and abominator of the phony.