Brewer's: The Abomination of Desolation

Abomina′tion

The Roman standard is so called (Matthew xxiv. 15). As it was set up in the holy temple, it was an abomination; and, as it brought destruction, it was the “abomination of desolation.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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