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hatred

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ha⋅tred

  [hey-trid]
–noun
the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
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Origin:
1125–75; ME; see hate, -red

Synonyms:
animosity, detestation, loathing, abomination.

Antonyms:
attraction, love.
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ha·tred   (hā'trĭd)   
n.  Intense animosity or hostility.

[Middle English : hate, hate; see hate + -rede, condition (from Old English -rǣden; see ar- in Indo-European roots).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

hatred 
c.1175, from M.E. hate (see hate) + rare suffix -red, from O.E. ræden "state, condition," related to verb rædan "to advise, discuss, rule, read, guess." See read and cf. second element of kindred and proper names Æþelræd and Alfred.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Hatred

among the works of the flesh (Gal. 5:20). Altogether different is the meaning of the word in Deut. 21:15; Matt. 6:24; Luke 14:26; Rom. 9:13, where it denotes only a less degree of love.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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