| Figure Name | bdelygmia | 
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Peacham (1593) | 
| Earliest Source | None | 
| Synonyms | abominatio, fastidium | 
| Etymology | Gk. "nausea, disgust" | 
| Type | Trope | 
| Linguistic Domain | 
      
        Semantic | 
  
| Definition | 
       1. Expressing hatred and abhorrence of a person, word, or deed. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Bdelygmia, in latine Abominatio, and Fastidium, is a forme of speech which the speaker useth to signifie how much he hateth and abhorreth some person, word, deed, or thing, and it is used commonly in a short forme, and in few words. (Peacham)  | 
  
| Example | 
       1. I do hate a proud man, as I do hate the engend'ring of toads. 2. Against a person thus: Out upon him wretch. Against an odious word thus: Peace for shame. Against an odious deed, thus: Fie upon it. Against an odious thing, thus: Away with it, I love not to heare of it, I abhorre it: Avoyd Sathan, Mat.4. (Peacham) 2. Sometime with mo words, thus: No more for shame, bury it in silence, whose eyes can looke upon it, and not loath it, or whose eares can heare it, and not abhore it? (Peacham)  | 
  
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| Related Figures | apodioxis, figures of exclamation | 
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| Confidence | Unconfident | 
| Last Editor | Ashley Rose Kelly | 
| Confidence | Unconfident | 
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| Reviewed | No |