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Example sentences for "odium"

Lexicographically close words:
odio; odious; odiously; odiousness; odit; odometer; odontoid; odor; odorata; odore
  1. I don't regret having done so, as circumstances afterward occurred (Stanton's ill conduct toward Sherman) which tended to cast odium on General Sherman for allowing such liberal terms to Jos.

  2. The scurrility and odium with which they have been loaded is perfectly natural, and what the nature of their testimony would have led one to expect.

  3. Despite constant odium and intermittent persecution, the Jewish financiers who had settled in England after the Norman conquest steadily improved their position down to the reign of Henry III.

  4. Even the agents of Mortimer shrunk from the odium of decreeing Edward's deposition, and the more prudent course was preferred of inducing the king to resign his power into his son's hands.

  5. Bute was a sensitive man, and apparently could not bear up against the odium which his position as a court-minister, disliked both by the nation and the Houses of Parliament, brought upon him.

  6. For he knew that none of the odium of his father's usurpation rested upon himself, and that he was well liked by the nation.

  7. Lord Clifford and the Earl of Arlington were Romanists, a fact which brought much odium and suspicion on their doings.

  8. The blood of Townley, and of his brave fellow-sufferers, rests not as a stain on the memory of Lord George Murray; and the Prince alone must bear the odium of that needless sacrifice to a visionary future.

  9. With regard to some points upon which the public odium was directed to the young Chevalier and his party, Lord Kilmarnock was very explicit in his last conversations with Mr. Foster.

  10. In after years, (what extreme of odium could be greater?

  11. The murder of O'Ruarc, whose title of Breffni he had usurped, was attributed to a deep-laid design; he certainly shared the odium with the advantage that ensued from it.

  12. The events of the succeeding two or three years were calculated to expose Henry to the odium of his subjects and the machinations of his enemies.

  13. Yet it is but just here to recall that much of the horror and odium which has accumulated on his memory is posthumous and retrospective.

  14. The odium thrown upon the ministry was inconceivable.

  15. It drew upon Frothingham the concentrated odium of the Rev.

  16. One small provocation by the Congregationalists of the First Church of New Haven--the attempt to place the odium of expulsion upon a member who became an Episcopalian--did not tend to allay feeling.

  17. He had been active in the enforcement of the Sabbath laws, and had brought on himself the odium of the opposing party.

  18. He hoped that the house for the sake of its own character would explode these doctrines with all the marks of odium they deserved; and that all parties would join in giving a death-blow to this execrable trade.

  19. Abolition and emancipation had been so often confounded, and by those who knew better, that it must have been purposely done, to throw an odium on the measure which was now before them.

  20. The party I speak of (like some amongst us who would disparage the best friends of their country) resolved to make the King either violate his principles of toleration, or incur the odium of protecting Papists.

  21. On them is cast the odium of all the calamities anticipated from the war.

  22. The consequence is, however, that whilst the whole blame of the transaction is really his, the odium will fall upon me, as it always does.

  23. But let no one in his love of science suggest this explanation to them; let us rest under the odium of being salt and disagreeable.

  24. He was plainly considered by his shipmates, and considered himself, on a footing of perfect equality: his skin was no odium to the men of the sea, whose lot he had no doubt shared, whatever it might have been in the cabin.

  25. He is well aware of the odium he would incur should he proclaim his heterodox views concerning the popular religion.

  26. This is the usual temper of the odium theologicum.

  27. A Government which was always anxious to efface such memoirs respected them in Delille, and would not have ventured to incur the odium of persecuting the amiable, grateful, and generally beloved old man.

  28. I shall count upon your love to save me from all the odium of a forced rupture.

  29. He cared little for public esteem, and was willing to bear the odium of the injustice with which the Emperor treated the French navy, so that it never appeared to emanate from Bonaparte himself.

  30. I am not one of those who assist by declamation in intensifying the odium of these acts.

  31. He then got one of his secretaries to take upon himself the odium of the letter to Bellarmine, by saying that he had signed the king's name to it.

  32. Leicester became very violent, and denounced the statement as an impudent falsehood, devised wilfully in order to cast odium upon him and to prevent his return.

  33. If the company is not ready to incur the odium of attempting to purchase its policies, it sends accomplished agents to persuade its policy-holders that some new form of policy is more desirable than the old.

  34. Miss Martineau evidently exaggerates both the odium which she incurred and the danger to which she exposed herself by these relations.

  35. Hence the odium and lassitude with which people will look upon a provision for the public which is bought by discord at the expense of social quiet.


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