| 单词 |
odious |
| 释义 |
odious, a.|ˈəʊdɪəs|
[a. AF. odious = OF. odieus (1376 in Godef.), F. odieux, ad. L. odiōs-us, f. odium hatred, odium: see -ous.]
1. Deserving of hatred, hateful; causing or exciting hatred or repugnance, disagreeable, offensive, repulsive; exciting odium.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 139 Þo passioun of Crist is myche for to preyse, bot sleeyng of his tormentoures is odiouse to God. c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 484 Sire quod he an odious meschief This day bityd is to myn ordre and me. a1400Octavian 1071 He bote hys lyppys and schoke hys berde, That hodyus hyt was to see. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. v. 199 So that nothyng be to the so odyous as synne & wyckydnes. 1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 111 A number of their odious comparisons and ambitious titles are now decaied. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 180 You told a Lye, an odious damned Lye. 1759Johnson Idler No. 86 ⁋11, I am asked twenty times a day when I am to leave those odious lodgings. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. iii, The unhappy woman..whose image became more odious to him every day. 1866Duke of Argyll Reign Law vii. (1871) 327 The most odious conceptions of human society which the world has even seen.
†2. Regarded with hatred; hated. Obs.
1382Wyclif Deut. xxi. 15 If a man haue two wyues, oon loued and another odyows. c1440Promp. Parv. 362/1 Odyows, or be-hatyd, odiosus. |
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