lothly
English
Alternative forms
- loathly (Etymology 2)
Etymology
From Middle English *lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċe (“hatefully”); equivalent to loth + -ly.
Adverb
lothly (comparative more lothly, superlative most lothly)
- In a loth manner.
- 1567, Ovid, “The Seventh Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], OCLC 1085261494, folio 90, verso:
- The bodies which the plague had ſlaine were (O moſt wretched caſe) / Not caried forth to buriall now. For why ſuch ſtore there was / That ſcarce the gates were wyde inough for Coffins forth to paſſe. / So eyther lothly on the ground vnburied did they lie, / Or elſe without ſolemnitie were burnt in bonfires hie / No reuerence nor regard was had.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, In a Wood
- Even the rank poplars bear / Lothly a rival's air.
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