All 4 Uses of
detest
in
David Copperfield
- I really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether I liked Uriah or detested him; and I was very doubtful about it still, as I stood looking him in the face in the street.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- 'I detest this mongrel time, neither day nor night.†
Chpt 22-24
- I detest her.†
Chpt 31-33
- In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely