Detestation

Door where the poor murder'd Body lay; which Sight fill'd him with the utmost Horror and Detestation.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Door where the poor murder'd Body lay; which Sight fill'd him with the utmost Horror and Detestation.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Detestation, she was discovering, had grown amain since Athens; the dutiful wife was no less dutiful, but she abominated every moment of that duty.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Detestation, she was discovering, had grown amain since Athens; the dutiful wife was no less dutiful, but she abominated every moment of that duty.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The first shelf yielded nothing except an interesting spell titled “HOW TO MAKE AN ELIXIR OF ABHORRENCE, which works quite as well, or perhaps a little worse than the traditional Elixirs of Loathing or Detestation, and is less delicate and expensive than the Elixir of Odium used by royals and members of the nobility, and will also keep extremely well for a very long time.”

Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

The first shelf yielded nothing except an interesting spell titled “HOW TO MAKE AN ELIXIR OF ABHORRENCE, which works quite as well, or perhaps a little worse than the traditional Elixirs of Loathing or Detestation, and is less delicate and expensive than the Elixir of Odium used by royals and members of the nobility, and will also keep extremely well for a very long time.”

Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

I shall not wrong the saints by giving another answer to this objection: Detestation of sin in any may well consist with the acceptation of their persons, and their designation to life eternal.

Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

Treachery, Perfidy, Cruelty, Hypocrisy, Avarice, &c. &c. should be pointed out to him for his Contempt as well as Detestation.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1777 1963

Have they not rewarded him so far, as to form invincible Combinations to involve every Man of any Learning and Ingenuity, in generall Detestation, Obloquy, and Ruin, who has been so unfortunate as to think him rather too craving?

John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767 1961

Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my Contempt, nor the other of my Detestation.

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961