How to pronounce“detestation”in English
hostility. The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and
detestation. They cordially hated them, but the impulses of their resentment were neutralized by their dread of the
floating batteries which lay with their fatal tubes ostentatiously pointed not
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Definitions of “detestation”
Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
““… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …””
Something detested.
“Neckties are a real detestation for them.”
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