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odium \OH-dee-uhm\, noun:
1. Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.
2. The state or fact of being intensely hated as the result of some
despicable action.
3. Disgrace or discredit attaching to something hated or repugnant.
At the back of the Tyn Church, we were told about the young Jesuit
whose harshness earned him the odium of his congregation.
-- Will Cohu, "High spirits and gloomy spectres", Sunday Telegraph, May
16, 1999
The point here is that, for all its efforts at avoiding offence, new
Labour has still managed to attract the odium of the paper that regards itself
as the voice of Middle England.
-- Will Mr. Brown hang for a sheep or a lamb?, New Statesman, December
2, 2002
But this brought forth nothing but odium on his head, so much so that
he had to backtrack soon afterwards.
-- Andrew Stephen, "A nation left unprotected", New Statesman, November
5, 2001
Moralists warn against the spurious sorrow that afflicts the
first-person plural of so many collective apologies: We erred, says the
penitent, though he clearly intends to shift blame and odium to his fellows.
-- "The Week", National Review, April 19, 2004
Odium comes from the Latin odium, "hatred," from odisse, "to hate."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for odium
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