Difference between Detest and Despise

DETEST vs DESPISE: VERB

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
To dislike intensely; loathe.
To regard with contempt or scorn.

Dislike intensely
Synonyms Abhor, Detest, etc. (see hate); to execrate, View with horror.
To hold worthy of malediction; execrate; hate; dislike intensely: as, to detest crimes or meanness.

Deplore, Adore, Revile, Abominate, Haten, Execrate, Drury, Resentment, Hatred, Resent, Loathe, Dislike, Abhor, Despise, Hate

Resent, Revile, Dislike, Abhor, Haten, Disregard, Flout, Defy, Overlook, Hate, Loathe, Detest, Contemn, Scorn, Disdain

Denigrate, Decry, Vilify, Nauseate, Deride, Deplore, Adore, Revile, Abominate, Drury, Hatred, Resent, Loathe, Despise, Hate

Oppress, Abominate, Deride, Resent, Revile, Disregard, Flout, Defy, Overlook, Hate, Loathe, Detest, Contemn, Scorn, Disdain

I detest ISIS and anybody who joins it, viscerally.
For though we detest that doctrine of the Socinians.
They only offer in genuine things and Detest fakes.
But I have and always will detest Delta.
She was of a sort I particularly detest.
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Thou dost hate them; I detest them, because Thou dost detest them.
The reason they detest the idea of the wrath of God is because they detest God as He truly is.
When I say that I detest kings, I mean I detest bad kings.
And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat ad you must detest their carcasses.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
Men would despise Lazarus, but God justified him.
Today, we despise those women, as Graves did.
Chinaman whom other Chinamen all despise and fear.
Party voters who vote consistently, politicians truly despise.
It follows that when we despise and neglect the church by forsaking the assembly we likewise despise and neglect the Lord.
We immediately prize some attitudes and despise others, in the sense that we directly prize and despise them without first appraising them instrumentally.
Despise not what the Holy Ghost esteems, lest thou despise the Holy Ghost himself.
And I now despise what I did, and I despise the way I was raised, too, with lies of all sorts.
To despise them is to despise God and man.