ppl. a. [f. LOATHE v. + -ED1.] That is an object of loathing or disgust; utterly disliked, abhorred, detested.
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 542. His compaignye is vn-to folkis lothid.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Dec., 70. The grieslie Tode-stoole … And loathed [1611 loathing] Paddocks lording on the same.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1633), 305. But her waiting Jaylors with cruell pitie brought loathed life unto her.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., II. i. 572. Earth the loathed stage Whereon we act this fained personage.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 178. Frogs, Lice, and Flies, must all his Palace fll With loath’d intrusion.
1742. Collins, Ode on Poet. Charac., 13. It left unbless’d her loath’d, dishonour’d side.
1885–94. R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, March, xiii. Her beauty will I mock with loathèd lust.
Hence Loathedness.
a. 1859. L. Hunt, Shewe Faire Seeming, xxvii. What first was Love, was now called Loathednesse.
