Both Uses
detestable
in
Middlemarch
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- As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable.†
Chpt 1 *
- Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses?†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(detestable) deserving intense dislike
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)