loath🔊

Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling.

💬 Quotations

Then said Faint-heart, Deliver thy Purse; but he making no haste to do it (for he was loth to lose his Money,) Mistrust ran up to him, and thrusting his hand into his Pocket, pull'd out thence a bag of Silver.

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come (1678)

"And thereupon I pledge thee," said the young nobleman, "which on any other argument I were loth to do—thinking of Ned as somewhat the cut of a villain."

Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak (1823)

(obsolete) Angry, hostile.

(obsolete) Loathsome, unpleasant.

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