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Definition of Loathest
1. loath [adj] - See also: loath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathest
Literary usage of Loathest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic by Harold Bayley (1920)
"In the eyes of the stupid and unappreciative Britons the Saxons were " swine,"
and the " loathest of all things," vide Layamon's Brut, eg: " Lo ! where here ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... when thou shall hereafter come to want that which thou now loathest, abhorrest,
and art weary of, and tired with, when 'tis past thou wilt say thou wert ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Of all things under heaven, What would'st thou loathest have me do ? Frank.
I would Not have you wrong my reverend father, and I hope you will not. Rains. ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"What would'st thou loathest have me do ? Frank. I would Not have you wrong my
reverend father, and I hope you will not. Rains. Thy father's an old dotard. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"Nor disappear'd the woman; but exclaim'd— One hand retaining tight her folded
vest— " Stranger! who loathest life, there lies Masar. ..."
6. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville Dorset, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Nicholas Udall, John Lyly, Robert Greene (1920)
"My sovereign lord, what I am loath to write, But loathest am to see, that I am
forc'd 30 By letters now to make you understand. My lord Ferrex, your eldest ..."
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