[f. LOATHE v. + -ING2.] That loathes, in senses of the vb.
† 1. That causes loathing or disgust; disgusting.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting w. Kennedie, 102. Laithly and lowsy, als lathand as ane leik.
1614. W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), 52. Goose-egges are loathing; yeelding an euill taste and sauour.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, xix. (1697), 418. You deliver them [Daughters] up, and force them into loathing Embraces.
2. That feels disgust or is disgusted.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. CVII. vi. Their lothing soule doth foode refraine.
1599. H. Buttes, Dyets drie Dinner, P 3 b. Clowding the loathing ayr with foggie fume Of Dock-Tabacco.
1825. Lytton, Falkland, 46. I looked upon the aims of others with a scornful and loathing eye.
Hence Loathingly adv., in a loathing manner, as one who feels a loathing or disgust.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XV. xcv. 380. Yea, let them listen, lothingly, what Iesuites propound Gainst Kings and States.
1824. Lamb, Lett. (1888), II. 112. I was loathingly in expectation of brencheese.
1862. Lytton, Str. Story, II. 378. Again I recoiled—wrathfully, loathingly.
