I Hate Her, but Now I Feel Affection for Her

Severean has passed the point of seeing her as an object, and now he sees it as a person. The idea that she should die is something that he hates when before he was comfortable at least beating her to the brink of death based on his statements. He's not explicit about the difference in opinion he had prior to this, right? So he's not, we're the ones calling back to gosh, just a couple chapters ago, he felt entirely differently about Yolenta.