Meaning of detester | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who detests, a hater.

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Examples

“I exclaimed, with sparkling eyes and a rapturous accent, "you are not profligate; are a stranger to the manners of this house, and a detester of these manners?”

“In a short time a jealous feud sprang up between the loving friends Rinaldo and Orlando; and Angelica, torn with conflicting emotions, from her dread on her father's account as well as her own⟳, and her aversion to every knight but her detester, was at one time compelled to apply⟳ to Orlando for assistance, and at another, being afraid that he would have⟳ the better of Rinaldo in combat, to send⟳ him away on a perilous adventure elsewhere, with a promise⟳ of accepting his love⟳ should he succeed⟳.”

“We give⟳ the fact as it occurs in Bannatyne's Journal, only premising that the Journalist held his master's opinions, both with respect⟳ to the Earl of Cassilis as an opposer of the king's party, and as being a detester of the practice of granting church revenues to titulars, instead of their being devoted to pious uses, such as the support⟳ of the clergy, expense of schools, and the relief of the national poor.”

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