detestation
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8.6
- noun
- /ˌdɛtəˈsteɪʃən/
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detestación
- Her detestation of injustice motivated her to become a lawyer.
The days of the moral maze and my strange semi friendship, semi detestation with Rabbi Hugo grin of the Reform synagogue.
- The days of the moral maze and my strange semi friendship, semi detestation with Rabbi Hugo grin of the Reform synagogue.
Examples
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This would excite universal discontent and detestation among the members of the government.
Academic text (2004) -
All the signs, enough to make me shiver with fear and detestation, and yet I wasn't paralyzed by it, not this time, but felt instead a business-like determination that made me march straight back to the house and pick up the phone.
Fiction book (2000) -
I hold you in detestation, whatever the hell that man means.
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And that, therefore, should all these be held in fear and detestation by the South?
Academic text (2004) -
You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed.
Academic text (1992) -
No man exists who does not hold you in detestation.
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I don't have detestation for most people at all.
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Can a different form of common identity, forged in tolerance and not in detestation, be built by former enemies who are now again neighbors?
Academic text (2006) -
The wiser and better sort of the common people, therefore, have always the utmost abhorrence and detestation of such excesses, which their experience tells them are so immediately fatal to people of their condition.
Academic text (1991) -
One source of Emma's detestation of Jude was the cheerlessness of its presentation of the human condition, and by the mid-1890s she was moving away from Hardy intellectually no less decisively than he was moving away from her emotionally.
Blog text (31)
Synonyms
394
1.9
A very strong dislike that can make a person want to hurt others
87
2.0
A strong feeling of dislike and being sick because something is offensive
48
5.2
A strong feeling of hatred and disgust for someone or something
18
6.3
A strong feeling of disgust at something very unpleasant
16
8.0
A strong feeling of hatred toward people or groups
3
6.2
A strong feeling of dislike and disgust
3
8.4
A strong feeling of dislike or disgust
2
7.8
A very strong feeling of hate and disgust
A strong feeling of disgust or deep dislike
A strong feeling of dislike and scorn for someone or something
Strong feeling of dislike and scorn for someone or something
Antonyms
How Hateful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Detestation comes from Latin parts de- ('completely' or 'away') and testari ('to call as a witness'), the same root as testify. It once had the force of calling something down, like a curse, and that strong feeling is why detestation now means intense hate and disgust.