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Loathing   /lˈoʊθɪŋ/   Listen
Loathing

noun
1.
Hate coupled with disgust.  Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium.



Loathe

verb
(past & past part. loathed; pres. part. loathing)
1.
Find repugnant.  Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate.  "She abhors cats"



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"Loathing" Quotes from Famous Books



... undeceive him as to those prejudices which have enslaved him; to annihilate in his bosom those false theories which corrupt his nature, and which are, in fact, infidel guides, destructive of the real happiness of the species. It is necessary to undeceive him as to the idea of his loathing himself, and especially that other idea, that some of his fellow-creatures are not to labor with their hands for their support, but in spiritual matters for his happiness. In fine, it is necessary ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach

... Creator. The craving for liquor cannot remain in the soul after death exactly as it was before, though it probably continues in some analogous form, as a thirst for wild and irregular excitement: but the loathing and horror of the ways of reason and of God, engendered by frequent voluntary intoxication, still continues in the soul. And from this observation we draw the general answer, that whereas in every sin, whether sensual or spiritual, the most important part ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.

... halted. The crowd filled the stair beneath and he marvelled once more as he gazed on the two young Hectors, who, true to their ideals and loathing the obliquities of a moral world that left them off deputations, blazed with self-approval in a plight whose shame burned through him, Hugh Courteney, by ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... brutal thing this unstrung creature was about to do, with a terrible arraignment of self-reproach because she had made no effort to dissuade him or place an obstacle in the way of accomplishing his design. It was not strange, thought she, with a revulsion of self-loathing, that he accepted her as a willing accomplice and proposed that she bear a hand. Even her effort to ride and find Boyle had been half-hearted. She might have gone, she told herself, ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... the hopeless end of human life; then back again they drove with still more reckless haste to spend the night in wild debauch and meet the gray dawning of another day with its mocking routine and disgust. Loathing their very joys, revolting at their own gratification, these men asked: "Is there nothing better than this, that we drain the cup of pleasure to the dregs, open our veins, watch the life blood ebb away, and laugh, and mingle our laughter with curses that so cheap and easy ...
— Christ, Christianity and the Bible • I. M. Haldeman


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