overhate

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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)

  1. 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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