hatefuladj.n.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. x. 7 Hateful [L. odibilis] biforn God and men is pride.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 309 (MED) Youre aunsweres is hedouse and hatefull to here.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xii. xxviii. sig. Bvi^v/1 Theyr crye is hatfull & odiouse to other byrdes.

a1500 Treat. Ghostly Battle in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 423 (MED) Wratthe and impacience..makyne a mane..hatefulle in goddys sygth.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 97 My name deare Saint is hatefull to my selfe. View more context for this quotation

1628 J. Verneuil tr. J. Cameron Tract Soueraigne Iudge Controuersies 4 Ingratitude, a vice abominable and hatefull both to God and good men.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 264 These Acts of hateful strife, hateful to all. View more context for this quotation

1722 A. N. Circular Let. Christian Friendship to Lady Mayoress 30 They [sc. the Themes of Romances] at best were nautious, irksome and burthensome, very hateful and fantastical, monstrous Themes.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 122 No vice is universally so hateful as ingratitude.

1822 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Nov. 492 Lying is hateful in the sight of God.

1855 F. D. Maurice Learning & Working iii. 285 That mother herself who had drawn him into the hatefullest crimes.

1922 W. M. Raine Man-size xvii. 131 ‘That's a hateful thing to say,’ she flamed.

1955 Marion (Ohio) Star 23 Aug. 8/1 The idea behind using experts on loan..to give businessmen a chance to learn more about government is hateful to politicians.

2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. 66 The vacuum cleaner is the most hateful object in the house.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 23750 Þe world hateful & couetous.

1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xxxvij Enuyus pepul. sclaunderers hateful peple.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4873 (MED) Thy hatefull hart and thy mysgouernaunce hath browgth abowt this onhappy chaunse.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. lxxxix/1 Hatefull, full of hatred, hayneux.

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. T2 Within these mighty walls inclos'd, Euen as the Owles so hatefull of the light.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iv. 24 Ah Gloster, hide thee from their hatefull lookes. View more context for this quotation

a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. Fracastoro Maidens Blush (1620) sig. B^v When from a Hill, his hatefull Brethren spi'd Him yet far-off.

1621 T. Taylor Parable of Sower & Seed 70 The same man..in another company can be as loose, as scornfull, and apparantly hatefull of goodnesse as euer before.

1712 A. Pope Messiah in Spectator No. 349 Nor ardent Warriors meet with hateful Eyes.

1799 Battle of Nile: Dramatic Poem 9 Of purpose stern, dauntless in resolution, Hateful of Flattery.

1860 W. H. Seward in Campaign 1860 60/1 Where is the human being on the face of this earth, that is so hateful of human happiness.

1890 Universal Rev. 15 June 231 Impiteous And hateful are the gods, and void of ruth.

1964 R. Gover Here goes Kitten 98 Evertime he..goes hateful an mad, he sets his guitar on his belly an plays, fetch some soul back.

1990 S. W. Mintz in Herskovits's Myth of Negro Past Introd. p. ix Lewis Henry Morgan..whose defense of American Indian rights had been outspoken and courageous, remained forever disdainful, even hateful, of Afro-Americans.

2007 B. Barnett You ought To! iii. 57 This process..acts to free the boy from the early established hateful feelings towards the mother.

1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) i. xxvii. f. lxvi/1 The moost souerayne remedye that the hatefull sholde doo for to be in the loue and in the grace of god..is that he sholde put awaye his hate.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. vii. C Yf thou haue a wife after thine owne mynde, forsake her not: (but comitte not thy self to the hatefull.)

1610 tr. Hellish & Horribble Councell sig. B3 One verity, which cannot bee called into controuersie, no, not euen by the hatefull and enuious of this flourishing Crowne.

1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell ii. vii. 144 What amiablenesse discerne these in the object of their love, who can love the hatefull?

1719 T. Killigrew Chit-chat v. 59 Dreams as often bring to mind the hateful as the lovely.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl IV. vi. 182 A remove from the Grange, the Hall, and all the hatefuls belonging to each of them.

1859 Colonial Church Chron. June 209 Those who would fasten their attention only on the hateful and the devilish in the theologies of distant lands.

1872 Q. Jrnl. Prophecy Apr. 113 Not such [enmity] as when the hateful are seen hating one another, but when the honourable honourably hate.

1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 283 Them bugs—the little old hatefuls!

1961 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 11 Mar. 5/4 Who can love the unloving, the ugly, the hateful, the vindictive?

2004 L. W. Sumner Hateful & Obscene Pref. p. ix Why should I find censorship of the hateful easier to justify than censorship of the obscene?