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detest

Meaning of “detest”

To hate or abhor greatly.

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KJV context and cross-referencesCawdrey 1604Webster 1828
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First occurrence: Deuteronomy 7:26

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The KJV occurrence

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Deuteronomy 7:26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 7:26 · retained source text

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou bee a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt vtterly detest it, and thou shalt vtterly abhorre it, for it is a cursed thing.

1611 marginal noteChap. 13.17.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

[Latin , to affirm or bear witness. The primary sense of testor is to set, throw or thrust. To detest is to thrust away.] To abhor; to abominate; to hate extremely; as, to detest crimes or meanness.

volume 1, leaf 575, column 2 (entry starts at OCR line 133)