detester

See also: détester and dêtester

English

Etymology

detest +‎ -er

Noun

detester (plural detesters)

  1. Someone who detests, a hater.
    • 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn‎:
      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?
    • 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2‎:
      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.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe‎:
      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.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

dētester

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of dētestor

Middle French

Etymology

Latin dētestor

Verb

detester

  1. to hate; to detest

Conjugation
  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
   Conjugation of detester
simple compound
infinitive detester avoir detesté
gerund en detestant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle detestant
past participle detesté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie (may be i' before a vowel) tu il nous vous ilz, elles
simple
tenses		 present deteste detestes deteste detestons detestez detestent
imperfect detestois, detestoys detestois, detestoys detestoit, detestoyt detestions, detestyons detestiez, detestyez detestoient, detestoyent
past historic detesta detestas detesta detestasmes detestastes detesterent
future detesterai, detesteray detesteras detestera detesterons detesterez detesteront
conditional detesterois, detesteroys detesterois, detesteroys detesteroit, detesteroyt detesterions, detesteryons detesteriez, detesteryez detesteroient, detesteroyent
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que ie que tu qu'il que nous que vous qu'ilz, qu'elles
simple
tenses		 present deteste detestes deteste detestons detestez detestent
imperfect detestasse detestasses detestast detestassions detestassiez detestassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— deteste — detestons detestez —

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