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loathful, a.|ˈləʊðfʊl|
Also 6 lothefull, 5–6 lothful(l, 8–9 Sc. laithfu'.
[f. loath n. + -ful.]
1. That is an object of loathing or disgust; hateful, loathsome. Now rare.
a1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 75, I lothfolest that levyth. 1481Earl of Worcester Tulle of Old Age (Caxton) f 3 b, I demaunde you Scipion and Lelius if the olde age of such as delited them in the labourage of londes semyth unto you to be wretched or lothfull. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 280 Whosoeuer prepareth himself to praye, let hym be lothful to himself in his owne euils. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 735 And lothefull idlenes he doth detest. 1892Times 10 Nov. 3/5 Europeans whose presence is so loathful to every right-thinking Mussulman.
2. Reluctant, retiring, bashful. Obs. exc. Sc.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. xxv. (1634) 485 So that yet we bee not lothfull or wearie of long tarrying. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 1314 Which when he did with lothfull eyes beholde. 1785Burns Cotter's Sat. Nt. 69 But blate and laithfu', scarce can weel behave. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 12 A landward lad is aye laithfu'.
Hence ˈloathfully adv., in a loathful manner, with reluctance. ˈloathfulness, the quality or condition of being loathful; reluctance.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xii. 32 Proteus..reading it with inward loathfulnesse, Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse. 1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 57 There was nothing for it but to loathfully walk away. |