2. Verb. (third-person singular of hate) ¹
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Definition of Hates
1. hate [v] - See also: hate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hates
Literary usage of Hates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"He hates all greatness and all pretensions to it, whether well or ill-founded.
... He hates all science and all art; he hates chemistry; he hates conchology ..."
2. Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt (1913)
"... "He hates all science and all art; he hates chemistry, he hates conchology;
he hates Voltaire; he hates Sir Isaac Newton; he hates wisdom; he hates wit; ..."
3. Improvement of the Understanding: Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"If a man conceives, that any one similar to himself hates anything also ...
The beloved object feels reciprocal hatred toward him who hates it (III. xl. ..."
4. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"If a man conceives, that anyone similar to himself hates anything also ...
The beloved object feels reciprocal hatred towards him who hates it (III. xl. ..."
5. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"greatest man in the world that hates him ; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to
my salvation! Shall I entertain thee against my sovereign Lord ? how then ..."
6. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"physics, which, he says, are unintelligible, and yet he would be thought to
understand them; he hates prose; he hates all poetry but his own ; he hates the ..."