odiumn.
/ˈəʊdɪəm/, U.S. /ˈoʊdiəm/ 1.
a. The fact or state of being hated or exposed to hatred (as a condition affecting the object); (also) an instance of this (now rare).
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the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > fact or state of being regarded with hatred
odium1602
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 386 Obseruing the king..to be in Odium with his subiects.
1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 17 That he might more indelebly lay an aspersion upon his untainted honour: and beget him a lasting Odium with his Princess.
1691 T. Ken Let. 7 June in E. H. Plumptre Life Thomas Ken (1888) II. 52 To avoid yt odium vnder wch I lye.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 64 I should have fallen under an Odium with them.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman xiii. 418 It is your own conduct, O ye foolish women! which throws an odium on your sex.
1835 T. S. Fay Norman Leslie I. vi. 41 His father and sister were necessarily involved with him in odium and ruin.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 36 The odium which attached to him when alive has not been removed by his death.
1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 780/1 The outbreak of the war..cancelled all Shaw's popularity, and brought him great odium even among some of his friends.
1992 D. Pannick Advocates iv. 114 [Lawyers] do not do their duty to their clients by insisting upon the strict letter of their rights. That is the sort of thing which..brings the administration of justice into odium.
b. Hatred, dislike; aversion, contempt. (As a feeling or quality of the subject.)
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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [noun]
wlatingc725
wlatc960
ugginga1325
uglinessc1325
loathingc1340
abominationc1350
wlatsomenessc1380
wlatingness1382
fastidie?a1425
loathsomenessc1425
ugsomenessc1450
horribility1496
detestation1526
abhorring1528
dislikingc1540
fastidiousness1541
abhorfulness1556
fulsomeness1563
execration1570
abhorment1576
detesting1591
loath?1591
abhorrence1592
abhorrency1596
dislike1597
distaste1598
disgust1611
nausea1619
oppositeness1619
nauseousness1622
detest1638
wearisomeness1642
repugnance1643
odium1645
abhorrition1649
abominate1651
nausity1654
disdain1655
repugnancy1681
degoust1716
repulsion1751
self-repugnance1852
kick1893
1645 R. Byfield Temple-defilers Defiled 34 The Seditious, that love to make divisions, and sow discords, and plant an inveterate odium in the hearts of King, and Prince, and people, against all the godly and faithfull in the Land.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 139 Before his death he discern'd himself the object of the Peoples scorne, and odium [Fr. l'objet de la haine & du mépris de ces mesmes Peuples].
1776 O. Schuyler in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 287 I will no longer suffer the public odium, since I have it most amply in my power to justify myself.
1798 D. O'Connell Corr. (1972) I. 32 The odium against the Catholics is becoming every day more inveterate.
1826 E. Irving Babylon II. 389 Though it expose me to odium in every form, I have no hesitation in asserting it.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xv. 134 There was a party in Clavering..who held him up to odium because he played a rubber at whist.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 240/1 He incurred much odium by taking up a strong attitude against the South African War.
1991 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 20 Aug. 10/4 Mr Hill claims these words..were calculated to cause those who heard them to regard him with odium and contempt.
2. The reproach or shame attached to or incurred by a particular act or fact; opprobrium; disgrace. Also: an instance of this; a taint, slur.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun]
ruffle?1507
scandal1615
odium1645
l'affaire1875
loss of face1929
1645 J. Burroughes Irenicum 180 The Papists..might cast an odium upon the Lutheran partie, which they lookt upon as standing in their light.
1650 R. Baron Pocula Castalia 116 The Author was that subterranean Fiend The common Enemy of Man, his end A scandall and an odium to bring Upon those People whom their peacefull King So strongly guards from all his other harms.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 369 That he might decline the Odium of being accompted an Atheist.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 348 Nero..having set Rome on fire himself..laid the Odium of it on the Christians.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lvii. 244 Men..who shall seek Truth with an unbiass'd Soul, and shall speak it freely to Mankind, without the fear of Parties, or the Odium of Singularity.
1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday in Cabinet (1794) 27 Sooner may ye re-whiten the chaste Snow..Than wipe the odium from a nymph beguil'd.
1791 R. Burns Let. 2 Feb. (1985) II. 69 They must be prosecuted, but if you please, I wish you would do it in your own name, as it would raise an odium on me, who am living in the neighbourhood.
1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad vi. 78 Botany Bay may in time outgrow the odium attached to its name.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 85 On him had fallen the odium of the proscription and the stain of the massacres.
1924 C. Crowell in Cent. Mag. Feb. 495/1 A boy brought up, as I had been, on a remote farm works out his own jumbled ideas on social laws. No odium attached to an illegitimate child in my mind at the time.
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. xi. 170 Another small group..demand that the odium of punishment be shared, so that neither parent shall be disliked more than the other.
1991 Guardian 26 Feb. 25/4 They make out that they are forced to operate a tight financial regime, and then they shift the pay-stricture odium to the Polytechnics and Colleges Employers' Forum.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > object of hatred
hatea1393
odium1681
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun]
horribility13..
abominationc1384
Satan?a1513
abhorring1550
ugliness1587
vomit1612
loathing-stock1622
abhorrency1645
abhorrence1650
nausea1654
odium1681
abominablea1687
horrible1726
detestation1728
poison1875
1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching i. 22 Is not this better than to..become the common odium and object of the People's Hatred and just Indignation.
1692 R. Ames Jacobite Conventicle 3 The Church shall be my Odium while I live: I hate the Priest, who has a Double Face, Religion's Scandal, and his Gown's Disgrace.
1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) II. vi. 287 I will not be the Author of your Misfortunes:..I will not cause you to disoblige the best of Fathers, nor myself become the Odium of Mankind.
Compounds
C1.
odium theologicum n. [ < classical Latin odium odium n. + theologicum, neuter of theologicus theologic adj.] hatred of the kind which proverbially characterizes theological disputes.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing theological dissensions
odium theologicum1698
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > [noun] > study or speculation > hatred characteristic of
odium theologicum1698
1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life xxx. 414 Strigelius desired to die, that he might be freed ab implacabilibus odiis theologorum, from the implacable strifes of contending Divines.]
1698 Charitable Samaritan 6 Were a Man to express a steddy, incurable, unrelenting Hatred, he could not call it by a properer Term, than that of Odium Theologicum.
1734 J. Jurin Geom. No Friend to Infidelity 13 This is the very method which the Odium Theologicum, the intemperate zeal of Divines has always pursued.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xiv. 998 As the odium theologicum decreased, pity reappeared.
1963 Times 14 Feb. 15/1 The question, then, arises whether the college to which he belongs and the cause of education in Oxford are to be sacrificed to the odium theologicum of a few infatuated dignitaries.
1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Mar. 25/1 It is understandable that they should arouse the kind of ideological hostility, almost an odium theologicum, that confronted the Freud exhibition.
C2. Hence, applied to other subjects or areas of dispute, as odium academicum (academic), odium aestheticum (aesthetic), odium archaeologicum (archaeological), odium biologicum (biological), odium ethicum (ethical), odium medicum (medical), odium musicum (musical), odium philologicum (philological), odium philosophicum (philosophical), odium scholasticum (scholarly), etc.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly
odium academicum1800
odium scholasticum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing archaeological dissensions
odium archaeologicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing biological dissensions
odium biologicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing ethical dissensions
odium ethicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing medical dissensions
odium medicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing musical dissensions
odium musicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing philological dissensions
odium philologicum1800
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > hatred characteristically academic or scholarly > hatred characterizing philosophical dissensions
odium philosophicum1800
society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [noun] > musical dissension
odium musicum1800
1800 B. Rush Let. 6 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) XXXII. 205 I have sometimes amused myself in forming a Scale of the different kinds of hatreds. They appear to me to rise in the following Order. Odium Juris-consultum, Odium medicum, Odium philologicum, Odium politicum, and Odium theologicum.
1848 J. Conington in tr. Æschylus Agamemnon Pref. p. x For writers it [sc. Latin] has ‘the advantage of technical terms and phrases which all scholars have agreed to use’; but for that very reason it contributes to foster what may be called odium philologicum.
1863 E. H. Gillett Life & Times J. Huss 76 The theologians of the University of Paris saw in him [sc. John Huss] an adherent of the philosophy of the Realists, and the odium philosophicum, full as much as the odium theologicum, brought them as Nominalists into bitter conflict with him.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) 9 The ‘odium ethicum’ is even more unreasonable than the ‘odium theologicum’.
1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 354 Something of the intensity of the odium theologicum (if indeed the aestheticum be not in these days the more bitter of the two).
1885 Spectator 4 July 876/1 The odium musicum was aroused, and the papers of the day were filled with correspondence on the subject.
1887 Cent. Mag. July 418/1 Several rival schools..have engendered toward one another as much intensity of feeling as the odium theologicum and odium medicum combined.
1935 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 1 286 The presence of ‘leaders’, of ‘strong men’, and of the frictions that accompany them (odium academicum).
1942 Mind 51 223 These articles..suffer..from the odium philosophicum that constantly deforms Taylor's references to Spinoza.
1949 Amer. Econ. Rev. 39 365 Even as private ethics..Benthamism has seemed so vulnerable a target to..odium ethicum.
1959 Listener 10 Sept. 405/2 The odium biologicum which it now seems scarcely possible for the acknowledged biologist wholly to avoid.
1959 Listener 29 Oct. 743/3 A kind of odium archaeologicum has been added to an odium theologicum.
1968 Language 44 246 The public will not change, and we will continue to suffer from the odium philologicum unless we can find a way of establishing more friendly communication.
1974 Times 21 Mar. (Art & Antiques Suppl.) p. iii/2 No punches are pulled in the book reviews, which are often filled with odium scholasticum, as one expert dissects the researches of another.
1983 Monumenta Nipponica 38 336 That odium philologicum which flourishes in Academe.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Nov. 39/1 She offers no real evidence to support these speculations, and one might rather suspect that the cause was odium academicum.
2015 B. P. Copenhaver Magic in Western Culture Introd. 13 In the end, Frazer stayed at Cambridge, and no one asked him to leave. But the story lives in his legend at Trinity and in the annals of odium philologicum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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