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detestable, a.|dɪˈtɛstəb(ə)l|
[a. F. détestable (1380 in Hatzf.), ad. L. dētestābilis, f. dētestārī: see -ble. Originally deteˈstable; in Spenser and Shakes. ˈdetestable.]
1. To be detested; intensely hateful or odious; execrable, abominable.
1461Liber Pluscardensis xi. viii. (1877) I. 387 To mak ws till oure Makare detestabile. c1477Caxton Jason 75 The terrible dragon cast upon me a gobet of the most detestable infeccion that euer was. c1489― Sonnes of Aymon xiv. 331 What saist thou, fole destestable? 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 34 Theyr presumpcion is to god moost detestable & hatefull. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany, The bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. i. 94 Oh detestable villaine! Call'st thou that Trimming? 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 26 That detestable sight. 1702Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 132 Busy at that detestable work, privateering. 1771Junius Lett. xlix. 256 That detestable transaction..ended in the death of Mr. Yorke. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. App. 396 The detestable ornamentation of the Alhambra. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 89 Along edges of detestable granular ice.
2. quasi-adv. Detestably.
1610Histrio-m. ii. 108 O detestable good! |