ETYMOLOGY
from Latin detestat-, ppl. stem of detestare (-arī) (to detest)
EXAMPLE
“…the whiche in all kinde of liuing and conuersacion is vtterly geuen and married vnto this worlde, whiche as a mortall enemy, the doctrine of the gospell doeth detestate and abhorre? with cleane handes and verye reuerentlye we vse to touche the holy boke of the gospell…”
From: The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente
By Erasmus, Desiderius
Translated by Nicholas Udall, 1548
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