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loathsomeness|ˈləʊðsəmnɪs|
[f. loathsome + -ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being loathsome, whether in a physical or moral sense.
a1300Cursor M. 1641 Al lathsumnes o wikkudhede has filed þe werld on lenth and brede. a1340Hampole Psalter cii. 2 Delite of syn be noght in thi sight: bot lathsumnes of syn. a1529Skelton Dk. Albany Wks. (Dyce) II. 72 Euer to remayne..In lousy lothsumnesse. 1654T. Hall (title) The Loathsomnesse of Long Haire. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 373 To observe the sudden change of vain beauty into loathsomeness. 1857–8Sears Athan. xvi. 135 The..utter loathsomeness of those crimes. 1883Contemp. Rev. Dec. 800 If there is beauty, it is mated with hideousness and loathsomeness.
b. quasi-concr. Something loathsome, a loathsome object.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Peter 7 Those sacrifices of Moses are now all ready growen in to a lothesomenes. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 312 For auoiding of putrefaction, or some other lothsomnesse. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xiii. (1674) 16 Those enormous and hatefull loathsomnesses, which do so much nauseate good mens eyes. 1867Bushnell in Hours at Home Nov. 6 The very thing now wanted..is a good supply of disfigurements,..loathsomenesses, objects of aversion and disgust.
†2. A feeling of loathing, disgust, or repugnance; aversion, dislike, reluctance; nausea. Obs.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies ii. ii. in Anglia VIII. 154/28 She receyued no worldes ioye..but forsoke hem wiþ a loþsumnes of herte. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 28 b, Southistel..causeth fastidiousnes or lothsomnesse of the stomake. 1536Cecil in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) VII. 450 The loathsomeness of the Queen's Majesty to consent thereto. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 190 Neyther that they runne away from them, or fordo them selues for impatientnes and lothsomenes of that estate [slavery]. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 132 The sweet Oranges..cause lothsomnesse in the stomack. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. iii. (1636) 108 Loathsomenesse to drinke after others. 1807E. S. Barrett Rising Sun II. 103 We must now, unwillingly, and with a degree of loathsomeness, proceed to give some few examples of it. 1808Southey Lett. (1856) II. 104 No sentiment can be excited except of hatred and disgust, which approaches to loathsomeness. |