Crossword clues for detesting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detest \De*test"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detested; p. pr. & vb. n. Detesting.] [L. detestare, detestatum, and detestari, to curse while calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a witness, testify, testis a witness: cf. F. d['e]tester. See Testify.]
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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. [Obs.]
The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches.
--Fuller.God hath detested them with his own mouth.
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To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
--Pope.Syn: To abhor; abominate; execrate. See Hate.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of detest English)
Usage examples of "detesting".
Gladly he had used his strength with the rowers, detesting the miasma below and the sickness he had felt.
He shifted in the chair, detesting the odor in the cabin from the oily foods and unwashed bodies.
Kiyama asked, suddenly enjoying Ishido's discomfort, detesting him for failing.
For whence was that dream with which Thou consoledst her, so that she permitted me to live with her, and to have my meals at the same table in the house, which she had begun to avoid, hating and detesting the blasphemies of my error?
For, being utterly opposed to and detesting such spectacles, he was one day met by chance by divers of his acquaintance and fellow-students returning from dinner, and they with a friendly violence drew him, vehemently objecting and resisting, into the amphitheatre, on a day of these cruel and deadly shows, he thus protesting: "Though you drag my body to that place, and there place me, can you force me to give my mind and lend my eyes to these shows?
Gladly he had used his strength with the rowers, detesting the miasma below and the sickness he had felt.
He shifted in the chair, detesting the odor in the cabin from the oily foods and unwashed bodies.
I wish to God I could just be a policeman, he thought, detesting Special Intelligence and the need for it.
But he happened to be thanking Gower Woodseer's whip for the comfortable numbness he felt at Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy castigator.
Even while detesting the thought I felt the desire for more of the same.
Hating herself, loathing and detesting her world and the people on it, she would have had no compunction about committing a crime to gain the money she wanted.