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/lˈoʊθɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Loathe v. t. (past & past part. loathed; pres. part. loathing)

To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. "Loathing the honeyed cakes, I Ionged for bread."

To dislike greatly; to abhor; to hate; to detest. "The secret which I loathe." "She loathes the vital sir."

Synonyms: To hate; abhor; detest; abominate. See Hate.

Loathe v. i. To feel disgust or nausea. (Obs.)

noun

Loathing n. Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation. "The mutual fear and loathing of the hostile races."

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Etymology of 'Loathing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Loathing" Quotes from Famous Books

... be said of the social hospitalities which raised our visitor's surprise. For example, many people are now asked to dinner who really need a dinner, and not merely those who revolt from the notion of dinner with loathing, and go to it with abhorrence. At the tables of our highest social leaders one now meets on a perfect equality persons of interesting minds and uncommon gifts who would once have been excluded because they were hungry, ...

— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells

... couldn't help it—on the way a queer loathing of the little village. The gaunt house-fronts obtruded themselves so obstinately, so self-satisfiedly, like anemic country parsons, with their eyes close together, giving me a mean, soulless stare. Every object testified to its lack of any temperamental share in the joy of living. ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... was as innocent as a baby. It was one of the things which men did not understand. She thought that if Harry Grantham asked her to go away with him it would be nice to go. Suddenly she realized how deep was her loathing of this Limehouse and of the people she met ...

— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer

... the swindler, and the thief, the bankrupt debtor, the 'moping idiot, and the madman gay,' whom a paltry spirit of economy congregated to share this dismal habitation, he felt his heart recoil with inexpressible loathing from enduring the contamination of their society even ...

— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... my American friend;[112] to Wilkie, for his picture of the King's arrival at Holyrood House; and some one besides. I am as tired of the operation as old Maida, who had been so often sketched that he got up and went away with signs of loathing whenever he saw an artist unfurl his paper and handle his brushes. But this young man is civil and modest; and I have agreed he shall sit in the room while I work, and take the best likeness he can, without ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

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