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deˈtestableness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being detestable; extreme hatefulness or odiousness.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 11 Oh these sinnes cannot be brooked for the foulenesse and detestablenesse of them. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 80 To instruct the people touching the Solidity of our Reformed Religion and of the Detestableness of Popery. a1729Clarke Serm. I. xl. (R.), The unfitness and abominableness, and detestableness and profaneness of any uncleanness or impurity appearing in the Temple of God. 1883H. M. Kennedy tr. Ten Brink's E. Eng. Lit. 280 Now the theme is the baseness, the detestableness, of this earthly world. |