Bible Dictionaries
Hate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) To love less, relatively.

(2):

(v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; - opposed to love.

(3):

(n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.

(4):

(n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hate.html. 1828.