Category:Odium

O"di*um, n. Etym: [l., fr. odi i hate. 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 ( etym: [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.