That's odd, because I think the word detestable in that verse is the same as the one in Leviticus 18: 22. From Wordnik.com. [4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters] Reference
PRIME MINISTER described as a detestable campaign and bury the hatchet and all the other weapons employed in it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917] Reference
"Oh! unhappy Florence, when wilt thou say farewell to crimes which render thy name detestable among Italian states?". From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
"detestable" course of Fox and the English Whig leaders in destroying. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
This state of things I regard as absolutely detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But let me not speak of this most detestable of crimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Where adulterie is cutte of, there many detestable vices. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Ideala exclaimed, "you have forgotten that detestable old blue shawl.". From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
In the meantime the detestable Balavan completed the conquest of Persia. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Like proud wealth and arrogant power, supercilious virtue also is detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
There was one detestable exhibit, all the more grievous as being professional. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Platitudes are detestable to us, unless they come clothed in a brilliant metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Such a government would be an oligarchy of the most odious and detestable character. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Nothing can be more detestable than that playing with fire which goes by the name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
What a relief to get rid of those uncomfortable ill-fitting, detestable German boots. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
And if you are not massacred by your detestable party, I hope to hear of you yet as a. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Stoves are detestable in every respect, except that they keep us perfectly comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Horse-racing and gambling, in all their detestable varieties, were the order of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Madame, the mother of the Regent, early discovered the character of this detestable man. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
There were two roses of similar quality, one that detestable mockery known as the burr-rose. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
England -- thanks to that detestable Gladstone, of whom pride has made a second Nebuchadnezzar. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was natural for Uriah Heep to wriggle like an eel, but that did not make it any the less detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
"That may protect the stocks certainly; but will it keep those detestable tracts out of the beer-house?". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan, the cast of Dancing with the Stars, and every other detestable celebrity --- gone. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Matlack: National Murder Day] Reference
There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Which explains why her mom and increasingly detestable British expat Catherine Ommanney meet there for a testy lunch. From Wordnik.com. [Housewives Nightlife, Episode 2: When everyone decides to stay in] Reference
I like to see two well-trained men engage in a fair combat, but such butchery as you have in the Coliseum is detestable. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
Such a condition cannot be discovered before marriage -- The detestable crime of abortion is appallingly rife in our day. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
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