Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being loathly; loathsomeness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Loathsomeness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being loathly; hideousness.

Etymologies

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loathly +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And if I may not so escape I shall cut off my nose so that every man shall hate me for my loathliness.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • Church, or so-called "servant of the Gospel", who by the least word or covert innuendo, gives us a push back into prehistoric slime and loathliness, -- and that there are numbers who do so, no one can deny.

    The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

  • Power without love, dependence where is no righteousness, wake a worship without devotion, a loathliness of servile flattery.

    Unspoken Sermons Second Series 1824-1905 1885

  • Think of those whom your vileness dooms to a life of loathliness, a death of shame and anguish, perhaps an eternity of horrible despair.

    Julian Home 1867

  • Power without love, dependence where is no righteousness, wake a worship without devotion, a loathliness of servile flattery.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

  • In some of them, beauty of colour enhanced loathliness of shape: one large serpent was covered from head to distant tail with feathers of glorious hues.

    Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

  • It was not that she could no longer brook control and be at the beck of each; it was a natural instinct, awakened at last in all the strength of maturity, that would not let her breathe another breath in peace unless it were her own, -- that made her feel as though her chains were chafing into the bone, -- that taught her the unutterable vileness and loathliness of bonds, -- that convicted her, in being a slave, of being something foul upon the fair face of creation.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

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