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Definition of Detests
1. detest [v] - See also: detest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detests
Literary usage of Detests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Such a native dread is, it seems, implanted in her, that it detests and abhors
the very sight of any such feather. In every penitent, God implants such a ..."
2. The Life of Petrarch: Collected from Memoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch by Dobson (Susannah) (1807)
"... for I perceive but too'clearly his antipathy for letters: I never saw it
stronger in any one : he dreads and detests nothing so much as a book: yet he ..."
3. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Eugenia Stanhope, Charles Strachey, Annette Calthrop (1901)
"... upon account of my former passion for it; and such a suspicion would do you
a great deal of hurt, especially with the King, who detests gaming. ..."
4. The Court of King James the First by Godfrey Goodman, John Sherren Brewer (1839)
"Marries the Duke's aunt—The Duke offended with him;—detests him. —He dies, and
leaves his money to a servant. Now, for the fall of the Earl of Middlesex, ..."
5. The Northern Courts: Containing Original Memoirs of the Sovereigns of Sweden by John Brown (1818)
"... had made use of any violence against the citizens at Gefle, the writer of this
letter would have fought you sword in hand, but he detests assassination. ..."
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