Both Uses of
detest
in
Twelfth Night
- If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt; if you will see it, follow me.†
Scene 2.5
- Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd!†
Scene 5.1 *
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely