unhate

present singular third person unhates · participle present unhating · participle past unhated · past unhated

1. transitiveTo leave off, cease, or desist from hating.

   I hate you! And I'll never unhate you or nothing!

   1982, Eric Wanner, Lila R. Gleitman, Language Acquisition

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   Till when, All that was, is; and must forever be. Nor is it in me to unhate my hates, — [...]

   2004, Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, Ian Robert James Jack, The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - Volume 9 - Page 317

   I learned how to unhate Bush the only way people ever really learn things—by doing.

   2008, Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

1. uncountableThe lack, absence, or omission of hate; hatelessness; love.

   Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space.

   1951, Kenneth Rexroth, Beyond the mountains - Page 71

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   [...] as Greene in his Our Man in Havana and other novels of power and glory, puzzled and worried, for other reasons than purely political or literary, why on earth should lt be easy to work up the politics of hate, but difficult to work out the politics of unhate.

   1993, Shuaib Bin Hasan, Amer Rashid Sheikh, A passage to Pakistan - Page 85