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loathfulness

loathfulness noun: the condition of being loathful; reluctance.

Noun

loathfulness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
    • Proteus […] reading it with inward loathfulnesse, / Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of loathfulness

From loathful + -ness.

Questions about loathfulness

What does loathfulness mean?
Loathfulness means the condition of being loathful; reluctance.
What part of speech is loathfulness?
Loathfulness is a noun.

Words near loathfulness in the dictionary

  1. loathesome
  2. loathest
  3. loatheth
  4. loathful
  5. loathfully
  6. loathfulness
  7. loathiest
  8. loathing
  9. loathingly
  10. loathings
  11. loathlier

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