[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.].
