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Definition of Loath

1. Adjective. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom. "Loath to admit a mistake"

2. Adjective. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed. "Clearly indisposed to grant their request"

Definition of Loath

1. a. Hateful; odious; disliked.

Definition of Loath

1. Adjective. unwilling, reluctant; averse, disinclined ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) hostile, angry, loathsome, unpleasant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loath

1. unwilling [adj] - See also: unwilling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loath

loanlands loanmonger loanmongers loans loanshark loansharked loansharking loansharks loanshift loanshifts

loanword loanwords loasa loasa family loast loath (current term) loath(p) loathable loathe loathed

loather loathers loathes loathest loatheth loathful loathiest loathing loathingly loathings

Literary usage of Loath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Israel in Egypt: Sacred Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, Georg Friedrich Händel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Horace Wadham Nicholl (1900)
"... they loathed to drink of the riv-er, they Г FF к drink of the riv - Г p Г lJ - er, they loathed to drink of the riv-er, they drink, they loath-ed to ..."

2. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"loath to ask even a passing question, he was about to pasa Sir Kenneth, with that sullen and lowering port which seems to say, " I know thee, ..."

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