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Definition
hate, detest, or intensely dislike
- In all her miserable experience, there was nothing else so awful and so loathsome as this sense.Chapter 5 — Hester at her Needle (89% in)
- And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did.Chapter 11 — The Interior of a Heart (74% in)
- Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!Chapter 11 — The Interior of a Heart (75% in)
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