detester

See also: détester and dêtester

English

Etymology

From detest +‎ -er.

Noun

detester (plural detesters)

1. Someone who detests, a hater.
   • 1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn‎^[1]:

     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^[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^[3]:

     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

• resetted, retested, settered, streeted

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

infinitive	simple	detester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	detestant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		detesté
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	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	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	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	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	deteste	—	detestons	detestez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Synonyms

• hayr

Descendants

• → English: detest
• French: détester