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  • adjective superlative form of loath: most loath.

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Examples

  • Have a care of thy wife's complexion, lest whilst thou seest another, thou loathest her, she prove jealous, thou naught,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Morgawse of Orkney is fairest in mine eye, and so every knight thinketh his own lady fairest; and wit ye well, sir, ye are the man in the world except Sir Tristram that I am most loathest to have ado withal, but, an ye will needs fight with me I shall endure you as long as I may.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • Then called Arthur with loud voice: "Here I come, Colgrim! to the realm we two shall reach; now we shall divide this land, as shall be to thee loathest of all!"

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • Nor is thy hand free from blasphemy while thou loathest the rites of love.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Pendragon, who was son of Constance, so they did the other, Aurelie, his brother, therefore they were in land loathest of all folk.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • Wherefore loathest thou it! for with the ills now present thy craft in good truth is not at all chargeable.

    Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

  • Why loathest thou not the god that is most hateful to the gods, who has betrayed thy prerogative to mortals?

    Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

  • That madest the bane thou loathest -- for the love

    The Hunchback James Sheridan Knowles 1823

  • And therefore thou art so far from trusting to it, that in some measure thou even loathest it, and art ashamed of it, as being a thing abominable, both in God's sight and thine own (Phil 3: 8).

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Then called Arthur with loud voice: "Lo! where here before us the heathen hounds, who slew our ancestors with their wicked crafts; and they are to us in land loathest of all things.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

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