Middle English Dictionary Entry
hāteful adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | hāteful adj. Also hat(te-. |
| Etymology | From hāte n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Hated, odious, repugnant, repulsive; ~ to, hated by (sb.); haven ~, to find (sb.) repulsive, hate (sb.); (b) full of hate, wrathful, malignant; (c) of an influence: stirring up hatred, malevolent.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Hos.9.15 : Al wickidnesse of hem in Galgal, for there Y hadde hem hateful [L exosus habui eos].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.18.2 : Greet Babilon..is maad..the keping of ech vnclene foul and haatful [L odibilis].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.99 : O hateful harm, condicion of pouerte, With thurst, with cold, with hunger so confoundid.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pri.(Manly-Rickert)B.1682 : Ther was in Asye in a greet citee..a Iewerye, Sustened..For foul vsure and lucre of vileynye, Hateful [vrr. hatful, Hatteful] to Crist and to his compaignye.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.366 : Yet prechestow and seist an hateful wyf Yrekened is for oon of thise myschaunces.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.1810 : And boþe two, inly set a-fire Of hiȝe disdeyn and of hatful Ire..mette on horse-bak y-fere.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Gen.34.30 : Ȝe han troblid me and han maad me hateful [L odiosum] to Cananeis and Fereseis.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)2 Kings 13.15 : And Amon hadde hir hateful bi ful grete haterede.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4703 : Love, it is an hatefull pees, A free acquitaunce withoute relees.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.1.4 : Whanne the swifte thoght hath clothid itself in tho fetheris it despiseth the hateful erthes and surmounteth the rowndnesse of the gret ayr.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.PPeace (Hrl 2255)170 : Striff is hatful, pees douhtir of pleasaunce.
- a1450 St.Kath.(3) (Richardson 44)53 : An aduersary..schal wyth hys wrethefulle swerde kutte þy cursed heed from þy hatefulle body.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3893 : Neuer hatfull to hym to hygh into batell.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)429/1 : He was so hatefull vnto all men at all folk desyrid at he had had a myschefe.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)11697 : Hatfful she ys off cher & fface.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)61b : Hatefull: Odiosus, perosus.
b
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)23750 : Oure flesshe is euer to synne crous, þe world hateful [Vsp: nithful] & couetous.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.2222 : It was to hym made relacioun Of an hatful conspiracioun.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)229/23 : Than were they so wroth that away wolde they never, but rathly russhed oute their swerdys and hyttys on their helmys with hateful dyntys.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1799 : Or from aboue what hateful influence Descendid is..To meue the, þou canst not lyue in pes?