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odium - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

  • Hatred; dislike.
    • ✤ His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
    • ✤ And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.1
    • ✤ ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’2
  • The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
    • ✤ She threw the odium of the fact on me.3

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic ﹡odjom, from Proto-Indo-European ﹡h₃ed-.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊ.di.əm/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊ.di.əm/
  • Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
  • Homophone: Odiham

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Footnotes

  1. 1796, George Washington, “Farewell Address”, American Daily Advertiser: ↩

  2. 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207: ↩

  3. 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82: ↩

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