All 4 Uses of
detest
in
Pride and Prejudice
- You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.†
p. 13.5 *detest = dislike intensely
- I quite detest the man.†
p. 15.9
- All this was acknowledged to Mrs. Gardiner; and after relating the circumstances, she thus went on: "I am now convinced, my dear aunt, that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil.†
p. 147.7
- Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbor, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.†
p. 330.0detested = disliked intensely