All 13 Uses of
loathe
in
The Ramayana
- For music's sevenfold notes are there, And triple measure,(57) wrought with care With melody and tone and time, And flavours(58) that enhance the rime; Heroic might has ample place, And loathing of the false and base, With anger, mirth, and terror, blent With tenderness, surprise, content.†
Book 1loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- In hideous form, in loathsome weed, A sad existence each shall lead.†
Book 1 *loathsome = disgusting or very bad
- ha and the saints whose care Was sacrifice and muttered prayer, Drew close together, each to each, And questioned thus with bated speech: "Indignant at his father's fate Will he on warriors vent his hate, The slayers of his father slay, And sweep the loathed race away?†
Book 1loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- Nay e'en when Bráhmans first have fed, They loathe the meal for others spread, And from the leavings turn with scorn, As bulls avoid a fractured horn.†
Book 2loathe = hate
- Kausalyá heard, she raised her head, And quickly to Sumitrá said: "Bharat, Kaikeyí's son is here,— Hers whose fell deeds I loathe and fear: That youth of foresight keen I fain Would meet and see his face again."†
Book 2
- They make our loathing souls endure Insult and scorn and sights impure, And flocking round the altars stay The holy rites we love to pay.†
Book 2loathing = disgust or intense dislike
- Then rose the fiend, and toward the skies Bore his poor helpless struggling prize: Hurrying through the air above The dame who loathed his proffered love.†
Book 3loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- Then, as a tear bedewed her eye, The hapless lady made reply: "I loathe, with heart and soul detest The shameful life your words suggest.†
Book 5loathe = hate
- 'Tis vain for dame or man to pray; Death will not hear before his day; Since I, from Ráma's sight debarred, And tortured by my cruel guard, Still live in hopeless woe to grieve And loathe the life I may not leave, Here, like a poor deserted thing, My limbs upon the ground I fling, And, like a bark beneath the blast, Shall sink oppressed with woes at last.†
Book 5
- My meaner foot shall never touch The demon whom I loathe so much.†
Book 5
- His son, the best of all who know The science of the bended bow, Was moon-bright Ráma, brave and strong, Who loved the right and loathed the wrong, Who ne'er from kingly duty swerved, Loved by the lands his might preserved.†
Book 5loathed = detested or intensely disliked
- With righteous soul that loathes the sin, He fled from Lanká and his kin.†
Book 6loathes = detests or intensely dislikes
- He comes a friend in happy time, Loathing his brother for his crime.†
Book 6loathing = disgust or intense dislike
Definition:
hate, detest, or intensely dislike
Word Confusion: Do not confuse loathe with loath which sounds very similar or the same. Loathe is a verb while loath is an adjective describing "reluctance or unwillingness to do something." Note that loathing and loathsome are forms of the verb loathe even though both word forms lack the "e". Occasionally, you will see loath spelled as loathe even in a published book, but it is rare enough that it is generally considered an error rather than a non-standard spelling.