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Definition of Detesters
1. detester [n] - See also: detester
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detesters
Literary usage of Detesters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"Its very name is given that drink Of which ye nre detesters ; Tars call their
devil's hums' of grog, If strong, 'good stiff nor'-westers ;' And from mi' ..."
2. Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 by John Bernard, Laurence Hutton, Brander Matthews (1886)
"I do not hesitate to say they have been among its sincerest detesters. It certainly
is no enviable lot when a man, happening to be born on a particular spot ..."
3. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1890)
"Men go through college and come out detesters of books and study. Other men,
capable enough, spend four years in contact with superior minds and yet no ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1820)
"... it is your duty, as men sworn to decide by the laws of their country and their
own consciences, as detesters of perjury and supreme injustice, ..."
5. Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons which Cause Central by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1922)
"Though the Czechs and the Germans detest each other with all the stops of their
detesters pulled out to the extreme limit, their manner of living is very ..."
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