Detester

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who detests, a hater.

    "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?"

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abhorrer

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"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?"

Etymology

From detest + -er.

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