loathfulness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]loathfulness (uncountable)
- (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Proteus […] reading it with inward loathfulnesse, / Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.