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noun

Odium n.

Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.

The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. "She threw the odium of the fact on me."

The state of being intensely hated as the result of some despicable action; opprobrium; disrepute; discredit; reproach mingled with contempt; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

Odium theologicum, the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.

Synonyms: Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. Odium, Hatred. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. "I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully." "You have... dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise."

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"Odium" Quotes from Famous Books

... not begin a fight," admonished the master, "unless you can attach to your opponent the odium of ...

— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

... molest Mackenzie as he had been to attack Donald Glas of Moidart. In addition to the friendly feelings of the other chiefs towards young Kintail, fostered by these family alliances, Huntly was not at all popular with his own followers, or with the Highlanders generally. He had incurred such odium for having some time before executed the Laird of Mackintosh, contrary to his solemn pledge, that it required little excuse on the part of the exasperated kindred tribes to counteract his plans, and on the slightest pretext to refuse to follow ...

— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... of Frederick II. (1239) gives the same idea: Revera papa iste quemdam religiosum et timoratum fratrem Helyam, ministrum ordinis fratrum minorum ab ipso beato Francisco patre ordinis migrationis suae tempore constitutum ... in odium nostrum ... deposuit. Huillard-Breholles: Hist. dipl. Fred. II., ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... England men who publicly helped the law into being, but would violate its provisions; conceal a fugitive; share his loaf with a runaway; furnish him golden wings to fly with. Nay, I think it would be difficult to find a magistrate in New England, willing to take the public odium of doing the official duty. I believe it is not possible to find a regular jury, who will punish a man for harboring a slave, for helping his escape, or fine a marshal or commissioner for being a little slow to catch a slave. Men will talk loud in public meetings, ...

— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker

... The odium into which Burr and his associates immediately fell, became, in some measure, attached to the political school to which they had belonged, and men's minds began to be unsettled upon the very political tenets, in the propriety and validity of which they had ...

— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

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