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detestates

detestates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detestate.

Meaning of detestate

Verb

detestate (third-person singular simple present detestates, present participle detestating, simple past and past participle detestated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To detest.
    • This worlde, whiche as a mortall enemy the doctrine of the Ghospel dooeth detestate and abhorre.1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […]...

Questions about detestates

What is detestates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Detestates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detestate.

Words near detestates in the dictionary

  1. detestability
  2. detestable
  3. detestableness
  4. detestably
  5. detestate
  6. detestates
  7. detestation
  8. detestations
  9. detested
  10. detester
  11. detesters

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