loathliness
(ˈləʊðlɪnɪs)
[f. loathly a. + -ness.]
The quality of being loathly; hatefulness, hideousness, loathsomeness. Now rare.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 371 b/2, I shal cutte of my nose so that euery man shal hate me for my lothelynes. 1531 Elyot Gov. iii. xxv, The deformitie and lothelynes of vice. 1587 Golding De Mornay xxx. 482, I will none of your sacrifices..al such things are but smoke and louthlynes in my sight. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractar. Secess. 245 Popery..through the loathliness of its own corruptions [etc.]. |