DETESTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does detestation mean? 

• DETESTATION (noun)
  The noun DETESTATION has 1 sense:

1. hate coupled with disgust

  Familiarity information: DETESTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETESTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hate coupled with disgust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium

Hypernyms ("detestation" is a kind of...):

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Derivation:

detest (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

 Context examples 

I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But this detestation, though so just, was of short duration, for she looked again and exclaimed, “Delightful! Mr. Morland and my brother!”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I had likewise learned, from his example, an utter detestation of all falsehood or disguise; and truth appeared so amiable to me, that I determined upon sacrificing every thing to it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thenceforward that was our one safety, and every strained situation was relieved by our introducing the name of the Scotch zoologist, when both our Professors would form a temporary alliance and friendship in their detestation and abuse of this common rival.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she now stood panting, looking at her with the utmost detestation that she was capable of expressing, and trembling from head to foot with rage and scorn, I thought I had never seen such a sight, and never could see such another.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When I happened to behold the reflection of my own form in a lake or fountain, I turned away my face in horror and detestation of myself, and could better endure the sight of a common Yahoo than of my own person.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You will return and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions will be renewed, and you will then have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He thought his ears, being used to such abominable words, might, by degrees, admit them with less detestation: that although he hated the Yahoos of this country, yet he no more blamed them for their odious qualities, than he did a gnnayh (a bird of prey) for its cruelty, or a sharp stone for cutting his hoof.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)