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No. Historical dictionaries include enmity, malignity, malice, spite, hostility, and persecution, and they document compounds for hostile speech, hostile blows, hostile designs, and other enacted or categorized hostility.
/ˈhe.te/ · Old English masculine noun
An attested Old English noun for hate, enmity, malice, spite, hostility, and persecution, productive in compounds and securely aligned with the Germanic hate family; whether Middle English hate directly continues it remains disputed, and the proposed deeper Indo-European route remains semantically opaque.
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Adds hostility, persecution, hostile speech, blow, and design.
Lines 2968–2989Documents hate, enmity, malignity, malice, and spite in context.
HETE headword gloss and examplesThe dossier preserves the attested semantic field and compound evidence instead of projecting one modern gloss backward.