detestation

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In my son’s democratic universe, I had hoped they could transcend detestation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

Germany has set aside its traditional detestation for debt to unleash emergency spending, while enabling the rest of the European Union to breach limits on deficits.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

"Being black people ourselves, such remarks have invited a sense of loathing and detestation of Gandhi," the Gandhi Must Fall group said in its court application.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2018

There would be on all hands the utmost detestation of whomsoever had been guilty of such cruelty.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë