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Hatred Haughtiness (See ARROGANCE.) Ahab, Captain main character whose monomania is an expression of hatred. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] flower representing hatred of the other sex. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 184] possesses a pathological hatred of white people. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645] dislikes Billy Budd so that he falsely accuses him of fomenting mutiny. [Am. Lit: Herman Melville Billy Budd] despised brother for stealing Isaac’s blessing. [O.T.: Genesis 27:41–42] their hatred extended to the funeral pyre where even their flames would not mingle. [Gk. Myth.: “The Seven Against Thebes” in Bénet, 917] after wife left him, he became a woman-hater. [Br. Lit.: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Magill I, 692–695] kills proud sea-kings, saves a king and queen from death, and defeats her brothers in battle. [Nor. Lit.: Haydn & Fuller, 275] a community hounds a man to his death. [Br. Opera: Britten, Peter Grimes, Westerman, 536–539] legendary sorceress whose hatred came of jealousy. [Gk. Myth.: Payton, 433]
indicates animosity. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] river of aversion. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] instructs children to despise Mr. Wakem. [Br. Lit.: The Mill on the Floss, Magill I, 593–595] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A FARMER who had a deadly and implacable hatred against a certain Fox, caught him and tied some tow to his tail; then carrying him to the centre of his own grain-field, set the tow on fire and let the animal go. In the mind of Alexis Paulvitch there lingered no thoughts of revenge--only a dull hatred of the man whom he and Rokoff had tried to break, and failed. She realised that my outburst of passion had been simply revenge, a fresh humiliation, and that to my earlier, almost causeless hatred was added now a personal hatred, born of envy. |
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