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Loath
Loath
(lōth)
, Adj.
[OE.
looth
, loth
, AS. lāð
hostile, odious; akin to OS. lāð
, G. leid
, Icel. leiðr
, Sw. led
, G. leiden
to suffer, OHG. līdan
to suffer, go, cf. AS. līðan
to go, Goth. leipan
, and E. lead
to guide.] 1.
Hateful; odious; disliked.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant;
as,
. loath
to partFull
loth
were him to curse for his tithes. Chaucer.
Why, then, though
loath
, yet must I be content. Shakespeare