loathedst

English

Verb

loathedst

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of loathe
   • 1654, Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest, or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 5th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill, and Francis Tyton, […], page 40:

     Did he love thee an Enemy? thee a ſinner? thee who even loathedſt thy ſelf?

   • 1763, John Brandon, Sermons on Different Subjects; with Devout Meditations and Spiritual Exercises, Bristol: […] William Pine, page 154:

     Did not all Things grow uneaſy and painful; inſomuch that thou loathedſt Life, yet dreadedſt Death?

   • 1850, The Golden Manual: Being a Guide to Catholic Devotion, Public and Private, Collected from Approved Sources, London: Burns and Lambert, […], page 694:

     […] For the frailty of man, which thou loathedst not to take willingly for our sins, […]

   • 1889, Frederic W[illiam] Farrar, Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 124:

     Thou proclaimedst God, and didst not seek Him; thou loathedst demons, and didst adore them; thou calledst on the judgment of God, and didst not believe that it existed; thou foresawest the punishments of hell, and didst not shun them; thou hadst a savour of Christianity, and didst persecute the Christian.

   • 1957, Punch, page 273:

     Thou thwartedst those thou saidst thou never loathedst, / But laudedst those that thou distrustedst more!