All 10 Uses of
loathe
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.†
Chpt 2
- Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition.†
Chpt 3
- They will remember all this and loathe themselves and their sins.†
Chpt 3
- Company, elsewhere a source of comfort to the afflicted, will be there a continual torment: knowledge, so much longed for as the chief good of the intellect, will there be hated worse than ignorance: light, so much coveted by all creatures from the lord of creation down to the humblest plant in the forest, will be loathed intensely.†
Chpt 3
- He shook the sound out of his ears by an angry toss of his head and hurried on, stumbling through the mouldering offal, his heart already bitten by an ache of loathing and bitterness.†
Chpt 5
- The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing.†
Chpt 5
- Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something.
Chpt 5 *loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.†
Chpt 5
- The desire and loathing excited by improper esthetic means are really not esthetic emotions not only because they are kinetic in character but also because they are not more than physical.†
Chpt 5
- This word, though it is vague, is clear enough to keep away good and evil which excite desire and loathing.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(loathe) hate, detest, or intensely dislikeWord Mastery: Word Confusion: Do not confuse loathe with loath which sounds very similar or the same. Loathe is a verb while loath is an adjective describing "reluctance or unwillingness to do something." Note that loathing and loathsome are forms of the verb loathe even though both word forms lack the "e". Occasionally, you will see loath spelled as loathe even in a published book, but it is rare enough that it is generally considered an error rather than a non-standard spelling.