O"di*um (?), n. [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 () [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.
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