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   Odium (ōdĭŭm), n. [L., fr. odi I hate.  Cf. Annoy, Noisome.]
   1. Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.
   
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   2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   
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   She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden.
   
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   3. 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”.
   
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   Odium theologicum () [L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.
   
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   Syn. -- 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.
   
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   I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
   
   To oppose his hatred fully. Shak.
   
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   You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield.
   
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