A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1460-1490, 1549-1551
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Detestatioun, -acioun, n. Also: -atione, -acione. [ME. detestacion (a 1450), -acyon, OF. detestation, L. dētestātio.] Detestation; intense dislike.c1460 Wisdom of Solomon 343.
Salomone … in his buk of his contemplacione and detestacione of this warld c1460 Ib. 475.
Thane tuk he in detestacione to lawbor mar in this erde c1490 Irland Asl. MS I. 15/19.
Thocht the personnis beand in hell may haue detestacioun of thar synnis, thai may nocht haue this manere of detestacioun now decernit 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 9/16.
This detestatione that I haue rehersit of ydilnes 1551 Acts II. 485/1.
The … frequent prechingis in detestatioun of the greuous … blasphematioun of the name of God
