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Definition of Loathings
1. loathing [n] - See also: loathing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathings
Literary usage of Loathings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"What ha' you done good physician ; You 've prun'd 1 yourself, methinks: you were
I hate beyond all depths ; I should have power Then to oppose my loathings, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1873)
"There had been the recompense, indeed, of that son's graceful and perfected youth,
of the haughty nobleness of soul that blazed through his loathings, ..."
3. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"I should not then be fore'd to marry one I hate beyond all depths; I should have
power Then to oppose my loathings, nay, remove 'em For ever from my sight. ..."
4. Boerhaave's Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases by Herman Boerhaave, J. Delacoste (1715)
"... of very great loathings (642.) whence it may be known, be managed, and cured.
6$6. If it continues a long time, ..."
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