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Gr. Annoy, Noisome.] 1.
Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium,
or, brought odium upon him.

2. The quality that provokes hatred;
offensiveness.

She threw the odium of the fact on
me.

Dryden.

||Odium theologicum (&?;) [L.], the enmity
peculiar to contending theologians.

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.

I wish I had a cause to seek him there,

To oppose his hatred fully.

Shak.

You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the
odium of your polity upon that middle class which you
despise.

Beaconsfield.

Od"ize (?), v. t. [imp.

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