The Only Use of
odious
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable;
Chpt 1odiousness = the quality of being extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate
Definition:
extremely unpleasant, disgusting, dislikable, or worthy of hate