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Definition of Loathful
1. a. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.
Definition of Loathful
1. Adjective. Full of loathing; hating; abhorring. ¹
2. Adjective. Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loathful
1. repulsive [adj] - See also: repulsive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathful
Literary usage of Loathful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Hating, abhorring: That the complaints thereof could not be told; Which when lie
did with loathful eyes behold, He would no more endure, but came his way. ..."
2. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1829)
"... up in their room brighter visionary scenes of lasting unalloyed joys in another
state, shared and enhanced by the society of a being loathful in life, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"... loathful life, now loosed from sinful bands, Upon his shoulders carried
him."—Spenser. Faerie Queen. ..."
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