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)

1. 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, 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.