detestation

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If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the force of his genius, the depth of his insight, the warmth of his detestations and affections, soon carried him far beyond any mere study in the ridicule of vain and hypocritical affectation.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

He is quite frank in his likes and dislikes, and always has his reasons for his major idolatries and minor detestations.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

He sported one of Hephzibah's detestations, a monocle, and spoke, when he spoke at all, with a languid drawl and what I learned later was a Piccadilly accent.

From Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Another friar in the same province refused to absolve Auditor Don Diego de Viga, unless he would first express I know not what protestations and detestations.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen