Detest
Detest , transitive verb
[Latin detestare, detestatum, and detestari, to curse while calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a witness, testify, testis a witness: compare French détester. See Testify.]
1.
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. [Obsolete]
The heresy of Nestorius... was detested in the Eastern churches.
God hath detested them with his own mouth.
2.
To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.