Definition of hatred

"hatred" in the noun sense

1. hate, hatred

the emotion of intense dislike a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

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Quotations for hatred

I like a good hater. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The madness of the heart. [ Byron ]

Hatred is a settled anger. [ Cicero ]

Hatred is self-punishment. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The heart gnawing on itself. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Hatred is but an inverse love. [ Carlyle ]

Hatred is blind, as well as love. [ Proverb ]

I do hate him as I hate the devil. [ Ben Jonson ]

Hatred is stronger than friendship. [ Rochefoucauld ]

No man hates him at whom he can laugh. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Take care that no one hates you justly. [ Syrus ]

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. [ Victor Hugo ]

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

People hate, as they love, unreasonably. [ Thackeray ]

To bear no malice or hatred in my heart. [ Church Catechism ]

Had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

Love on his lips and hatred in his heart:
His motto - constancy, his creed - to part. [ Byron ]

He, who would free from malice pass his days,
Must live obscure, and never merit praise. [ Gay ]

Woman is more constant in hatred than in love.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. [ Byron ]

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

Hate no one - hate their vices, not themselves. [ Brainard ]

I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. [ George S. Hillard ]

Never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. [ Milton ]

Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I here. [ Sophocles ]

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. [ Vauvenargues ]

A deadly hatred, and a wound that can never be healed. [ Juv., on the effects of religious contention between neighbours ]

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. [ South ]

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly. [ George Eliot ]

The love of the wicked is more dangerous than there hatred. [ Proverb ]

The love of the past is often but the hatred of the present. [ Dorian ]

Hate furroweth the brow, and a man may frown till he hateth. [ Tupper ]

When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The hatred of persons related to each other is the most violent. [ Tacitus ]

There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. [ George Eliot ]

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love. [ Buddha ]

A man gains nothing by being vain-glorious, but contempt and hatred. [ Proverb ]

The hatred of those most closely connected with us is the bitterest. [ Tac ]

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet. [ Richter ]

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. [ Tacitus ]

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. [ Lamartine ]

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. [ Bible ]

Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. [ Congreve ]

Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

There is a greater distance between love and indifference than between hatred and love. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

Hatred itself may be a praiseworthy emotion if provoked in us by a lively love of good. [ Joubert ]

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by, love; this is an old rule. [ Buddha ]

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. [ Pope ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old. [ Auerbach ]

To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. [ Colton ]

The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred. [ Proverb ]

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. [ Beecher ]

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. [ Colton ]

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. [ Lady Blessington ]

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]

Hate belongs with sin. If we do a wrong, we hate either the thing or God, or ourselves, or somebody else. [ Duffield ]

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. [ Johnson ]

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [ Balzac ]

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]

Neglect will banish love, kill a lie, and silence slander; yet it will feed a malady, nourish hatred, and fill a garden with weeds. [ E. P. Day ]

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. [ Landor ]

The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. [ John Bate ]

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effect; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, as well as extreme hatred. [ Chapman ]

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. [ Pascal ]

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. [ Zimmermann ]

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you. [ Plutarch ]

There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred. [ F. W. Robertson ]

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

hatred in Scrabble®

The word hatred is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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hatred in Words With Friends™

The word hatred is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words containing the sequence hatred

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Shorter words in hatred

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