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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Intense animosity or hostility.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The emotion or feeling of hate; hate. See hate, n., 1.
  2. n. Synonyms Ill-will, Enmity, etc. (see animosity); Hatred, Dislike, Antipathy, etc. (see antipathy); Disgrace, Disfavor, Dishonor (see odium); detestation, loathing, abhorrence.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English hatrede, hatreden ("hatred"), from hate ("hate") + -reden (suffix denoting state or condition), equivalent to hate +‎ -red. Related to Icelandic hatri ("hatred"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English : hate, hate; see hate + -rede, condition (from Old English -rǣden; see ar- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • milosrdenstvi Any examples that don't survive in modern English? Aug 27, 2010

  • qroqqa One of two words surviving in modern English with the abstract noun formative suffix -red, the other being kindred. This is not the same suffix as in hundred. Aug 26, 2010

  • ruzuzu Hatred has been looked up 393 times, favorited 0 times, listed 10 times, commented on 0 times, and has a Scrabble score of 10. Jul 24, 2010

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