hatred

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Yes, glowing as their hatred is my love; They would behead thee, they would wound this neck, So dazzling white, with the disgraceful axe!

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  1. noun Intense animosity or hostility.

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  • She would never forgive Hank for his role in the accident, and his response to her hatred was a seemingly insurmountable wall of anger. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • I felt a long-repressed hatred for this Jewry, and this hatred is as necessary to my nature as gall is to the blood. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
  • So the hatred is the product of pathologically high self-esteem. —  Dissecting Leftism
  • Here's what I think: In the as yet-unacknowledged heart of the hatred is a most uncomfortable truth. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • David’s hatred was a soul-hatred, an abhorrency, Psal. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English : hate, hate; see hate + -rede, condition (from Old English -rǣden; see ar- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English hatred, hatreden, from hate, hate, + -red, -reden (as in kindred, Middle English kindrede), from Anglo-Saxon -rǣden (as in freóndrǣden, friendship), a suffix signifying condition, state: see -red.
 

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/ˈheɪtrɛd/
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