All 4 Uses of
odious
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Latin tongue is hardly understood, Syriac is unknown, Greek so odious that 'tis accounted no ignorance in the most learned to skip a Greek word without reading it, and to say, '~Groecum est non legitur~.'†
Chpt 2.7.4 *odious = extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
- He continued his flight as long as he could see, when he turned round, the turreted enclosure of the University, and the rare houses of the suburb; but, when, at length, a rise of ground had completely concealed from him that odious Paris, when he could believe himself to be a hundred leagues distant from it, in the fields, in the desert, he halted, and it seemed to him that he breathed more freely.†
Chpt 2.9.1
- the foul, odious monk!†
Chpt 2.11.1
- The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow.†
Chpt 2.11.4