a. Obs. Forms: 4 wlatsum, -som, wlatesome, Sc. vlatsum, 4–5 wlathsum. [f. WHAT sb. + -SOME.] Loathsome, detestable.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23229. Fell dragons and tades bath Þat ar apon to lok ful lath, Ful wlatsum on to here or se.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 541. Lo! suche a wrakful wo for wlatsum dedez.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, x. (Mathou), 484. His wlatsum Infirmyte [sc. leprosy]. Ibid., xviii. (Egipciane), 418. I sal sa quhow myn saule vithine Is fylyt vith a vlatsum syne.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 634. Ful wlatsom was the stynk of his careyne. Ibid. (c. 1386), Nun’s Priest’s T., 233. Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable To god.
c. 1430. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 203. Man is but wlatsum erþe and clay.
c. 1492, 1563. [see the erron. form WALTSOM(E].
Hence † Wlatsomeness, loathing, disgust.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxi. (Eugenia), 351. Þe abbot … Gat on his fete & stert hir fra,… Hafand at hyr gret wlatsumnes.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 195. Here sour dowȝ is savery þing þat fordoiþ wlatsunnesse [sic].
1398. [see WALTSOM(E].
