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    Rich dreams now which he was loath[e] to wake from.  (source)
    loath = very reluctant
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    I must tell you that they were dreams so vivid and beautiful that I am loath to wake to reality.  (source)
    loath = reluctant
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    Kile was really the only person I could trust with this task, though I was loath to ask him.  (source)
    loath = very reluctant
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    The credit for the survivors' escape has landed squarely on Gale's shoulders, although he's loath to accept it.  (source)
    loath = reluctant or unwilling
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    DIED IN AUBURN, N.Y., MARCH loth, 1913.†  (source)
    loth = reluctant or unwilling to do something
    unconventional spelling: This is a less-common spelling variant sometimes seen in the UK.
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    A little way ahead and to his left he saw suddenly, issuing from a black hole of shadow under the cliff, the most loathly shape that he had ever beheld, horrible beyond the horror of an evil dream.†  (source)
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    for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.†  (source)
    loatheth = is reluctant or unwilling to do something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She loatheth" in older English, today we say "She loaths."
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    Sir, said Sir Lamorak, I am loath to have ado with you in this quarrel, for every man thinketh his own lady fairest; and though I praise the lady that I love most ye should not be wroth; for though my lady Queen Guenever, be fairest in your eye, wit ye well Queen Morgawse of Orkney is fairest in mine eye, and so every knight thinketh his own lady fairest; and wit ye well, sir, ye are the man in the world except Sir Tristram that I am most loathest to have ado withal, but, an ye will needs fight with me I shall endure you as long as I may.†  (source)
    loathest = are reluctant or unwilling to do something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou loathest" in older English, today we say "You loath."
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    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.†  (source)
    loathness = the quality of being highly reluctant or unwilling
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.†  (source)
    lotheth = is reluctant or unwilling to do something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She lotheth" in older English, today we say "She loths."
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    "My rightful Lady," quoth this woeful man, "Whom I most dread, and love as I best can, And lothest were of all this world displease, Were't not that I for you have such disease,* *distress, affliction That I must die here at your foot anon, Nought would I tell how me is woebegone.†  (source)
    lothest = are reluctant or unwilling to do something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou lothest" in older English, today we say "You loth."
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    She depicted his impassioned manner; beheld the indecision of both between their lothness to separate and their desire not to be observed; depicted their shaking of hands; how they probably parted with frigidity in their general contour and movements, only in the smaller features showing the spark of passion, thus invisible to all but themselves.†  (source)
    lothness = the quality of being highly unwilling or reluctant
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    But though she's loath to admit it, lately that persona has begun to feel restrictive.  (source)
    loath = reluctant or unwilling
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