All 6 Uses of
detest
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.†
p. 102.4detest = dislike intensely
- Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.†
p. 104.2 *detested = disliked intensely
- For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils—one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.†
p. 158.7
- Why did they preserve so miserable and detested a life?†
p. 186.0
- The past appeared to me in the light of a frightful dream; yet the vessel in which I was, the wind that blew me from the detested shore of Ireland, and the sea which surrounded me told me too forcibly that I was deceived by no vision and that Clerval, my friend and dearest companion, had fallen a victim to me and the monster of my creation.†
p. 187.9
- I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.†
p. 222.8