All 3 Uses of
detest
in
Northanger Abbey
- How I detest them.†
Chpt 7 *
- Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth; grandeur I detest: I would not settle in London for the universe.†
Chpt 15
- Catherine trembled at the emphasis with which he spoke, and sat pale and breathless, in a most humble mood, concerned for his children, and detesting old chests; and the general, recovering his politeness as he looked at her, spent the rest of his time in scolding his daughter for so foolishly hurrying her fair friend, who was absolutely out of breath from haste, when there was not the least occasion for hurry in the world: but Catherine could not at all get over the double distress of…†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(detest) dislike intensely