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adjective

Loath adj.

Hateful; odious; disliked. (Obs.)

Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part. "Full loth were him to curse for his tithes." "Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content."

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Etymology of 'Loath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... appears uneasy and loath to speak.] Amelia, he does not like to divulge what he knows in presence of a third person—leave the ...

— Lover's Vows • Mrs. Inchbald

... opposissions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained, and continued against the Saincts, from time to time, in one sorte or other. Some times by bloody death and cruell torments; other whiles imprisonments, banishments, & other hard usages; as being loath his kingdom should goe downe, the trueth prevaile, and y^e churches of God reverte to their anciente puritie, and recover their primative order, libertie, & bewtie. But when he could not prevaile by these means, against the maine trueths ...

— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford

... and conversation the dinner passed for the overjoyed children. But somewhat less eagerness for the contemplated journey was displayed by Madame Olivier who was loath to leave the comfortable villa in Port Said and who was frightened at the thought of living for several weeks in a tent, and particularly at the plan of excursions on camel-back. It happened that she had already tried this mode of riding ...

— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... years. She knew him weighed down by embarrassments which were very real—which had been known to her before Daniel Granger's appearance as a wooer. There was no pretence about the ruin that menaced them; and it was not strange that her father, who had been loath to move beyond the very outskirts of his lost domain, should shrink with a shuddering dread from exile in a dismal ...

— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

... him, and when at last he stepped out on the grass he lingered a moment beneath the arch of grapevine and looked back into the low, sun-flecked interior of the shop as if loath to leave it. ...

— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett

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