odium

See also: Odium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin odium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.di.əm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.di.əm/
• Rhymes: -əʊdiəm
• Homophone: Odiham

Noun

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

1. Hatred; dislike.

   His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.

   • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:

     And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 207:

     ‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’

2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82:

     She threw the odium of the fact on me.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ed- (hate) (0 c, 5 e)

• odium generis humani
• odium philologicum
• odium theologicum

Anagrams

• duomi