hatred

Everyday

1. Hatred is a very strong feeling of disliking someone or something, much stronger than ordinary dislike. tree →
2. A hatred of something is a strong dislike of it: «a hatred of spiders». tree →

In the lessons

In ethics, history and citizenship lessons, hatred between groups can lead to bullying, violence and war, and laws forbid stirring up hatred. Religions teach to replace hatred with love and forgiveness. In everyday talk «a hatred of» can be light: a hatred of broccoli. Phrases: «full of hatred», «hatred of», «racial hatred», «love and hatred».

Examples

• Hatred can grow if people do not talk to each other. tree →
• He looked at the bully with hatred. tree →
• Martin Luther King said hatred cannot drive out hatred; only love can. tree →
• My sister has a hatred of spiders. tree →
• Laws in many countries forbid spreading hatred against groups of people. tree →
• The story ends with the two families letting go of their hatred. tree →
• Kind words can help stop hatred. tree →
• He cherished an undying hatred towards me, and lost no occasion of showing it. tree →

Note

Usually uncountable; «a hatred of» is also used. Related: hate (verb, noun), hateful. Spelling: hat-red, not «hatered». Stronger than «dislike».

In Jewish tradition

In the law of manslaughter, hatred shows that a killing was intended, and the killer then does not get a city of refuge.

Interpretation. The law treats hatred as the difference between murder and accident. In Sefer Yetzirah, hatred is one of the twelve simple letters' opposing powers, set against love.

Examples

• And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died; (Torah NUM.35.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• There are twelve which are all the time at war; three of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• There are twelve which are all the time at war ; three of them produce love, and three hatred, three are animators and three destroyers. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions. (Writings PRO.10.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• I hate them with utmost hatred; I count them mine enemies. (Writings PSA.139.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• Consider how many are mine enemies, and the cruel hatred wherewith they hate me. (Writings PSA.25.19, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Usually uncountable; «a hatred of» is also used. Related: hate (verb, noun), hateful. Spelling: hat-red, not «hatered». Stronger than «dislike».