Odium
Odium (ō"di*um) , noun
[Latin, from odi I hate. Compare Annoy, Noisome.]
1.
Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.
2.
The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
She threw the odium of the fact on me.
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.
I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his hatred fully.
You have... dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise.
Collocations (1)
Odium theologicum , the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.