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Definition
hate, detest, or intensely dislike
- He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself-creatures, whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His.Chapter 8 (45% in)
- The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing with consequent repentance and humility.Chapter 29 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "loathe" in The Screwtape Letters.
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