All 3 Uses of
loath
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound: your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your night's exploit on Gad's-hill: you may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting that action.†
Scene 1.2
- Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles: i' faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me, la!†
Scene 2.1 *
- The people fear me; for they do observe Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature: The seasons change their manners, as the year Had found some months asleep, and leap'd them over.†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
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(loath) reluctant or unwilling to do something