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English
Etymology
From over- + hate.
Verb
overhate (third-person singular simple present overhates, present participle overhating, simple past and past participle overhated)
- To hate excessively.
1599, Sir Philip Sidney, “Psalm VIII. Domine, Dominus”, in The Sidney Psalms:From sucklings hath thy honor sprung, Thy force hath flow'd from babies tongue: Whereby thou stopp'st thine en'mies prating Bent to revenge and overhating.
1882, Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio - Volume 4, pages 34–35:The Ermine is, then of immense benefit to the farmer. We are of the opinion that it has been overhated, and too indiscriminately persecuted.
2016, Paul DeForest Hicks, John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in The Gilded Age, →ISBN:Parsons replied, with his dry sense of humor: “I do not overeat, and I do not overhate. I keep busy, am interested in every human endeavor and enjoy life.”
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