Lexicographical Neighbors of Loathsomenesses
Literary usage of Loathsomenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moral Uses of Dark Things by Horace Bushnell (1881)
"... we must of course encounter there all the unbeautiful things, deformities,
and loathsomenesses we encounter here, and probably as much worse and more ..."
2. The Irish Quarterly Review (1857)
"weaknesses, ils littlenesses, and its loathsomenesses, its falsities, its vices
and its shames, until the reader would, if he could, throw down the volume ..."
3. A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea by Hume Nisbet (1891)
"... fine silk lace and silver filigree work, mantillas and high-heeled Parisian
boots, rags and loathsomenesses, importunate guides and car-drivers, ..."
4. Paris and Half-Europe in '78: The Paris Exposition of 1878, Its Side-shows by Henry Morford (1879)
"What a combination of all the loathsomenesses to which the daintiest flesh can
turn, when the vital spark no longer holds it sweet and fragrant, ..."
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