Definition of "detestation"

detestation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural detestations
1. Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
2. Something detested.
  Quotations
  “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”
  1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎