loathness
Example Sentences
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Should we be taking leave As long a term as yet we have to live, The loathness to depart would grow.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise By all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh'd between loathness and obedience at Which end o' th' beam should bow.
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare
I will remain The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth * * * * Should we be taking leave As long a term as yet we have to live, The loathness to depart would grow—Adieu!
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
When the family had retired after supper, and left us to talk on our particular affairs, I found the same indecision, the same loathness to bring our courtship to a period, as formerly.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
The man of fifty-four, become the biographer of his own youth, finds no loathness of self-respect to prevent his detailing the absurd adventures with which he diverted himself on the way.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
