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Hatred definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HA'TRED, n. Great dislike or aversion; hate; enmity. Hatred is an aversion to evil, and may spring from utter disapprobation, as the hatred of vice or meanness; or it may spring from offenses or injuries done by fellow men, or from envy or jealousy, in which case it is usually accompanied with malevolence or malignity. Extreme hatred is abhorrence or detestation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action [syn: hate, hatred] [ant: love]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from hate + Old English r?den condition — more at kindred Date: 12th century 1. hate 2. prejudiced hostility or animosity <old racial prejudices and national hatreds — Peter Thomson>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. intense dislike or ill will. Etymology: ME f. HATE + -red f. OE ræden condition

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hatred Ha"tred, n. [OE. hatred, hatreden. See Hate, and cf. Kindred.] Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn: Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy. See Odium.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hatreds) Hatred is an extremely strong feeling of dislike for someone or something. Her hatred of them would never lead her to murder... = hate ? love N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft N of/for n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

among the works of the flesh (Gal. 5:20). Altogether different is the meaning of the word in Deut. 21:15; Matt. 6:24; Luke 14:26; Rom. 9:13, where it denotes only a less degree of love.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Hate, enmity, hostility, disaffection, disfavor, alienation, estrangement, odium, animosity, ill-will, great dislike. 2. Abhorrence, detestation, abomination, horror, loathing, disgust, antipathy, repugnance.

Moby Thesaurus

Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, allergy, animosity, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, aversion, belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, conflict, contention, creeping flesh, despitefulness, detestation, disgust, dislike, enmity, execration, friction, hate, horror, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, nausea, odium, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, shuddering, spite, spitefulness, vials of hate, vials of wrath, xenophobia