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Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 12, 2009odium \OH-dee-uhm\, noun: 1. Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence. At the back of the Tyn Church, we were told about the young Jesuit whose harshness earned him the odium of his congregation. The point here is that, for all its efforts at avoiding offence, new Labour has still managed to attract the odium of the paper that regards itself as the voice of Middle England. But this brought forth nothing but odium on his head, so much so that he had to backtrack soon afterwards. Moralists warn against the spurious sorrow that afflicts the first-person plural of so many collective apologies: We erred, says the penitent, though he clearly intends to shift blame and odium to his fellows. Odium comes from the Latin odium, "hatred," from odisse, "to hate." | |||||||||
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