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Definition of Lothest
1. loth [adj] - See also: loth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lothest
Literary usage of Lothest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"... 1311 ' Whom I most drede and love as I best can, And lothest were of al this
world dis- plese, Nere il that I for yow have swich disese. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Tempt not to far, the lothest man to fight : When he is forste, the lustiest
blowes dooth sought. Your Courtiers, check not, Merchants for their gain, ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"My Soueraigne Lord, what I am loth to write But lothest am to see, that I am
forced By letters nowe to make you ..."
4. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: with an introduction by Thomas R by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1900)
"70 lothest of anything that ever was loth Were me, as wisly god my soule save !
To seyn a thing through which ye might be wroth ; And, to that day that I be ..."
5. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1899)
"Sir. ye are the man in the world, except Sir Tristram, that I am most lothest to
have ado withal. But and ye will needs fighi with me, I shall endure you as ..."
6. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"... from this world shee hath mee exiled, Whan I was lothest hence for to goe,
And am in age as4 (who sayth) but a childe, Et ecce nunc in puluere dormio. ..."
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