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- noun Plural form of
loathing .
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Examples
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Sure, the prose might rip your soul out and hold it in front of you, forcing you to confront your deepest loathings and fears ... but isn't that what good fiction is supposed to do?
The Next Fix - out today! apexdigest 2008
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As he writes, 'What unpleasant truths might we learn from looking closer at our musical fears and loathings, at what we consider' bad taste '?'
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Shaviro then pinpoints where he feels Zizek's gone wrong, adding that "the denunciation of 'hedonist permissivity' is certainly not the way to go - Zizek's loathing for this, like the similar loathings on the part of fundamentalist Christians and Jihadist Muslims, is a false response, based upon a misrecognition of the basic problem."
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But you don't have a lot of time for these loathings.
Johann Hari: The Unnoticed War Where Millions of Children's Lives are at Stake 2009
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My old yearnings, loathings, fear of death and insinuations of selfhood vanished.
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I'm just sick and tired of people taking three sentences out of a book packed with a lot of decent lessons about forgiveness, humility, and charity to justify their personal loathings.
Random Notes From A Tired Weasel partywhipple 2005
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The visceral roots of longings and loathings start very deep, even though they go on later to have extensive upward ramifications.
We live and develop in a primate body Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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What had a senior wrangler to do with emotions and loathings such as I had felt in the presence of Count Borla?
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No reluctance, no horror, no feminine, shall I say, no modest loathings?
Mansfield Park 2004
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Avicenna in consumption, Trallien in phrensy, Plato in loathings, Aetius in strangury, -- whence we conclude that warm water, having so many different qualities, must have been a very useful article at table, had it only been to assist digestion, considering that people ate copiously in the reign of the Valois.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 Various
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