All 13 Uses of

loathe

in

The Ramayana

For music's sevenfold notes are there, And triple measure,(57) wrought with care With melody and tone and time, And flavours(58) that enhance the rime; Heroic might has ample place, And loathing of the false and base, With anger, mirth, and terror, blent With tenderness, surprise, content.†
Book 1

When his wild form, that struck with awe, Fearful as ravening flame, they saw, Vasish? ha and the saints whose care Was sacrifice and muttered prayer, Drew close together, each to each, And questioned thus with bated speech: "Indignant at his father's fate Will he on warriors vent his hate, The slayers of his father slay, And sweep the loathed race away?†
Book 1

Nay e'en when Bráhmans first have fed, They loathe the meal for others spread, And from the leavings turn with scorn, As bulls avoid a fractured horn.†
Book 2

Kausalyá heard, she raised her head, And quickly to Sumitrá said: "Bharat, Kaikeyí's son is here,— Hers whose fell deeds I loathe and fear: That youth of foresight keen I fain Would meet and see his face again."†
Book 2

They make our loathing souls endure Insult and scorn and sights impure, And flocking round the altars stay The holy rites we love to pay.†
Book 2

Then rose the fiend, and toward the skies Bore his poor helpless struggling prize: Hurrying through the air above The dame who loathed his proffered love.†
Book 3

Then, as a tear bedewed her eye, The hapless lady made reply: "I loathe, with heart and soul detest The shameful life your words suggest.†
Book 5

'Tis vain for dame or man to pray; Death will not hear before his day; Since I, from Ráma's sight debarred, And tortured by my cruel guard, Still live in hopeless woe to grieve And loathe the life I may not leave, Here, like a poor deserted thing, My limbs upon the ground I fling, And, like a bark beneath the blast, Shall sink oppressed with woes at last.†
Book 5

His son, the best of all who know The science of the bended bow, Was moon-bright Ráma, brave and strong, Who loved the right and loathed the wrong, Who ne'er from kingly duty swerved, Loved by the lands his might preserved.†
Book 5

With righteous soul that loathes the sin, He fled from Lanká and his kin.†
Book 6

Definition:

(loathe)
hate, detest, or intensely dislike

Word 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.