DETEST

detest

Verb

  1. To dislike intensely; to loathe.
    I detest snakes.
    Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope.
  2. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
    The heresy of Nestorius was detested in the Eastern churches. — Fuller.
    God hath detested them with his own mouth. — Bale.


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