detestation

detestation

See also: détestation

English

Etymology

From Middle French détestation.

Noun

detestation (countable and uncountable, plural detestations)

1. Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
2. Something detested.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”

Translations

hate coupled with disgust

Bulgarian: отвращение (bg) n (otvraštenie), омраза (bg) f (omraza) Finnish: kammo (fi)

French: détestation (fr) f Scottish Gaelic: sgreamh m

something detested

Finnish: kammotus