All 4 Uses of
detest
in
Middlemarch
- But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high retail prices, and Mrs. Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's design in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears.†
Chpt 1detested = disliked intensely
- "Does that always make people fall in love?" she answered, carelessly; "it seems to me quite as often a reason for detesting each other."†
Chpt 1 *detesting = disliking intensely
- Mr. Lydgate was rather late this morning, but the visitors stayed long enough to see him; for Mr. Featherstone asked Rosamond to sing to him, and she herself was so kind as to propose a second favorite song of his—"Flow on, thou shining river"—after she had sung "Home, sweet home" (which she detested).†
Chpt 1detested = disliked intensely
- What led her particularly to desire horse-exercise was a visit from Captain Lydgate, the baronet's third son, who, I am sorry to say, was detested by our Tertius of that name as a vapid fop "parting his hair from brow to nape in a despicable fashion" (not followed by Tertius himself), and showing an ignorant security that he knew the proper thing to say on every topic.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
dislike intensely