n. [ L., fr. odi I hate. Cf. Annoy, Noisome. ] 1. Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ] 2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. [ 1913 Webster ] She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The state of being intensely hated as the result of some despicable action; opprobrium; disrepute; discredit; reproach mingled with contempt; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
Odium theologicum ety>[ L. ], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ] I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his hatred fully. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ] | 
