Both Uses of
loath
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- What, then, had become of that deep-rooted shyness of his which had made him loth to eat or drink under a strange roof?†
Chpt 4 *
- Then he saw himself sitting at the old piano, striking chords softly from its speckled keys and singing, amid the talk which had risen again in the room, to her who leaned beside the mantelpiece a dainty song of the Elizabethans, a sad and sweet loth to depart, the victory chant of Agincourt, the happy air of Greensleeves.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(loath) reluctant or unwilling to do something