To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
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To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
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To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
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To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.
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To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
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To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
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A feeling of contempt and aversion; the regarding anything as unworthy of or beneath one; scorn.
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To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abo…
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To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
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Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
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The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
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A despising; contempt.
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The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
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The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
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The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.
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State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
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The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
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The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
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Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
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Hatre/ of marriage.
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Hatred of women.
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Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.
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Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
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To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
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A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting…
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Exactly representing; exact.
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Outer.
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To convert into a verb; to verbify.
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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
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The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
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The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
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To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
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Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.
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A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…
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A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderne…
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