Both Uses
detest
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- But they much more admire and detest the folly of those who, when they see a rich man, though they neither owe him anything, nor are in any sort dependent on his bounty, yet, merely because he is rich, give him little less than divine honours, even though they know him to be so covetous and base-minded that, notwithstanding all his wealth, he will not part with one farthing of it to them as long as he lives!†
detest = dislike intensely
- OF THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practised by men than by any sort of beasts.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(detest) dislike intensely
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)