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单词 loathliness
释义

loathlinessn.

/ˈləʊðlɪnɪs/
Etymology: < loathly adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality of being loathly; hatefulness, hideousness, loathsomeness. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > hideousness
loathsomenessa1300
hideousness1340
loathliness1483
shockingness1753
hideosity1807
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 371 b/2 I shal cutte of my nose so that euery man shal hate me for my lothelynes.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. hv The deformitie and lothelynes of vice.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxx. 561 I will none of your sacrifices..al such things are but smoke and lothlynes in my sight.
1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 245 Popery..through the loathliness of its own corruptions [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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