Both Uses
detest
in
All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
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- It shall be so; I'll send her to my house, Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, And wherefore I am fled; write to the king That which I durst not speak: his present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.†
Scene 2.3detested = disliked intensely
- 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife Of a detesting lord.†
Scene 3.5 *detesting = disliking intensely
Definitions:
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(1)
(detest) dislike intensely
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)