detest

verb

Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle French detester (French détester), from Latin dētestor (“to imprecate evil while calling the gods to witness", "denounce", "hate intensely”), from dē- + testor (“to testify, bear witness”), from testis (“a witness”); see test, testify. Doublet of detestate.

1. To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.

   “I detest snakes.”

   “Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell.”

2. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

   “The heresy of Nestorius […] was detested in the Eastern churches.”

   “God hath detested them with his own mouth.”