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detestation

[ dee-te-stey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. abhorrence; hatred.
  2. a person or thing detested.


detestation

/ ˌdiːtɛsˈteɪʃən /

noun

  1. intense hatred; abhorrence
  2. a person or thing that is detested


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Word History and Origins

Origin of detestation1

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin dētestātiōn- (stem of dētestātiō ), equivalent to dētestāt ( us ) (past participle of dētestārī to detest; -ate 1 ) + -iōn- -ion

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Example Sentences

Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.

As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren.

Into that game Michael poured all he felt of savage detestation for everything that the Modern side stood for.

He therefore urged the Achaeans not only to decline the offer, but to hold Eumenes in detestation for thinking of making it.

But you are exhausted; and notwithstanding my detestation of that infernal tyrant, your master, I am a humane man.

She and Lady Ralegh had 'an ancient acquaintance,' which had resulted in mutual detestation.

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