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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... and useful habit and very effectual against the devil, who is ever about us, and lies in wait to bring us into sin and shame, calamity and trouble, but who is very loath to hear God's name, and cannot remain long where it is uttered and called upon from the heart. And, indeed, many a terrible and shocking calamity would befall us if, by our calling upon His name, ...

— The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther

... now—though, indeed, why should not I? Does not my mother, down there in the lane, know quare stories, God bless us, beyant telling about it? But you ought not to have slept in the back bedroom. She was loath to let me be going in and out of that room even in the day time, let alone for any Christian to spend the night in it; for sure she says it was his ...

— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... would be loath to touch the feet of a wanderer such as I. But if there is in the house some old wife who has borne such troubles as I have borne, I would have ...

— The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy • Padriac Colum

... from the beginning. I will not interrupt," she said, quickly, and Olivia, nothing loath, gave a graphic account of the ...

— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... recollections of the grotesque little stranger. "I never saw anything so like the light of an astral lamp as those beautiful large eyes of hers," said she. "I began to love the odd little thing; and if she had stayed much longer, I should have been very loath to part ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various

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