Definition of Detesters

1. Noun. (plural of detester) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detesters

1. detester [n] - See also: detester

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detesters

detersion
detersions
detersive
detersively
detersiveness
detersives
detest
detestability
detestable
detestableness
detestably
detestation
detestations
detested
detester
detesters (current term)
detestest
detesteth
detesting
detests
detext
dethatch
dethatched
dethatcher
dethatchers
dethatches
dethatching
dethaw
dethawed
dethawing

Literary usage of Detesters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"Its very name is given that drink Of which ye nre detesters ; Tars call their devil's hums' of grog, If strong, 'good stiff nor'-westers ;' And from mi' ..."

2. Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 by John Bernard, Laurence Hutton, Brander Matthews (1886)
"I do not hesitate to say they have been among its sincerest detesters. It certainly is no enviable lot when a man, happening to be born on a particular spot ..."

3. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1890)
"Men go through college and come out detesters of books and study. Other men, capable enough, spend four years in contact with superior minds and yet no ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1820)
"... it is your duty, as men sworn to decide by the laws of their country and their own consciences, as detesters of perjury and supreme injustice, ..."

5. Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons which Cause Central by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1922)
"Though the Czechs and the Germans detest each other with all the stops of their detesters pulled out to the extreme limit, their manner of living is very ..."

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