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  2. Abomination (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    Abomination (from Latin abominare 'to deprecate as an ill omen') is an English term used to translate the Biblical Hebrew terms shiqquts שיקוץ ‎ and sheqets שקץ ‎, [1] which are derived from shâqats, or the terms תֹּועֵבָה ‎, tōʻēḇā or to'e'va (noun) or 'ta'ev (verb).

  3. Glossary of Dune (franchise) terminology - Wikipedia

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    Abomination – Bene Gesserit term for one who is pre-born and thus susceptible to being taken over by the ancestral personalities in Other Memory. [ 5 ] Ajidamal (or Amal) – Disastrously-flawed synthetic melange created by the Tleilaxu Project Amal before the process of producing spice in axlotl tanks is perfected.

  4. Milcom - Wikipedia

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    Statue potentially depicting Milcom or a deified Ammonite ruler as Milcom, 8th century BCE. [1]Milcom or Milkom (Ammonite: 𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤌 *Mīlkām; Hebrew: מִלְכֹּם Mīlkōm) was the name of either the national god, or a popular god, of the Ammonites.

  5. Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia

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    The Bene Gesserit call this "Abomination", and such children are killed immediately. They are also referred to as " pre-born " in Children of Dune . In Dune , Lady Jessica is pregnant when she undergoes the spice agony while among the Fremen ; her resulting daughter, Alia , is born a full Reverend Mother, the mind of an adult in a child's body.

  6. Abomination - Wikipedia

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    Abomination (character), a Marvel Comics supervillain; Abomination , a plot device in the Dune series; Abomination: The Nemesis Project, a 1999 video game; Abomination, a 1998 novel by Robert Swindells; The Abomination , a Dalek variant

  7. Abomination (Judaism) - Wikipedia

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    Toebah or to'eva (abominable or taboo) is the highest level or worst kind of abomination. [1] It includes the sins of idolatry, placing or worshiping false gods in the temple, eating unclean animals, magic, divination, perversion (incest, pederasty, homosexuality [3] and bestiality), [4] cheating, lying, killing the innocent, false witness, illegal offerings (imperfect animals, etc ...

  8. Abomination of desolation - Wikipedia

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    Enthroned Zeus (Greek, c. 100 BCE) "Abomination of desolation" [a] is a phrase from the Book of Daniel describing the pagan sacrifices with which the 2nd century BC Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes replaced the twice-daily offering in the Jewish temple, or alternatively the altar on which such offerings were made.

  9. Shiksa - Wikipedia

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    A passage in which shekets (translated as "abomination") appeared in the Talmud to refer to people (rather than non-kosher actions) can be translated as: [7] Let him not marry the daughter of an unlearned and unobservant man, for they are an abomination and their wives a creeping thing.