Definition of Detesting

1. Verb. (present participle of detest) ¹

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Definition of Detesting

1. detest [v] - See also: detest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detesting

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

Literary usage of Detesting

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

1. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"They were at once brave, timid, detesting falsehood in others, and again courting it; haughty and insolent with those of inferior rank or power, ..."

2. The History of the Reign of George III.: To which is Prefixed, A View of the by Robert Bisset (1820)
"Effects of the French revolution in Britain. —- detesting the old French government and not acquainted with the new, Britons approve of the ..."

3. The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History by Jeremiah Whitaker Newman (1838)
"That unrelenting tyrant detesting superior merit, or irritated by an indiscreet satirical production, resolved finally to extinguish the race, ..."

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