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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xix. f. cliii We see euen yet..with howe stiffe and stubberne hatefulnes they haue conspired agaynst hym.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiv. sig. I8 The eternall hatefulnes of my destinie, made Gynecias ielousie stoppe that, and all other my blessings.

1619 T. Ingmethorpe Serm. Words St. Paul (new ed.) 23 Let vs..constantly proclaime all hatefulnesse and hostilitie against that Romane Pharaoh.

1662 Door opening into Christian Relig. i. viii. 467 Molesting persons with suits at Law..with a virulency or hatefulnesse of spirit.

1733 G. Braithwaite Nation's Reproach 84 The Hatefulness [caused by Exess of Liquor]..is what so unmans Persons.

1795 J. Edwards Serm. Var. Important Subj. i. 54 The benevolence of the giver not only finds nothing in the receiver to draw it, but a great deal of hatefulness to repel it.

1838 D. Thom Dialogues on Universal Salvation v. 241 Steeped in hatefulness..must man's mind be, which can take delight in the infliction of severe and protracted sufferings upon his fellow men.

1887 Cosmopolitan Dec. 327/1 That's the way with these selfish old women, hatefulness and vanity hold the field.

1933 Punch 19 Apr. 444/1 Composing the features to an expression of great hatefulness.

1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits 187 Do you have any idea how many white men have called me girl and aunt? Out of disrespect? Out of hatefulness?

2015 Edmonton Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 July c3 It's given her a vocabulary for standing up to oppressors, without resorting to hatefulness.

1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 97 O wycked vyce whose hatefulnes All other doth excell.

1580 W. Hergest Right Rule Christian Chastitie 34 The hatefulnes and detestablenes of this filthy sinne is to be considered by the circumstances therof.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haineuseté, hatefulnesse, odiousnesse.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. iii. 317 To inform the People of the hatefulness of Vice, and the excellency of Holiness.

1756 A. Kippis Advantages Relig. Knowl. 14 Our unalienable title to private judgement, together with the hatefulness of persecution to God and Man.

1798 C. Sawkins Serm. 31 We are assaulted by the violence of temptations, yet convinced of the hatefulness of sin.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 97 Able to recognise the past in its true hatefulness.

1890 Lit. World 16 Aug. 265/1 Innocence and love are held to be the one enduring good of existence, and malice is shown in all its hatefulness.

1907 W. V. Kelley in Methodist Rev. Sept. 795 The æsthete did not believe in the supremacy of conscience, the reality of righteousness, or the hatefulness of lust.

1981 Hist. Today 1 Mar. 28/1 His fervent black racism..stressed the positive value of being a Negro, not the hatefulness of being white.

2012 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 13 May d5/2 ‘High jinks’ and ‘pranks’ are words used to diminish the hatefulness of past actions.