Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LOTH'SOME
LOTH'SOME, a. [Sw. ledesam.]
- Causing an extreme aversion of appetite; exciting fastidiousness. – Num. xi.
- Exciting extreme disgust; offensive; as, a lothsome ease. – Ps. xxxviii.
- Odious; exciting hatred or abhorrence; detestable; as, to lothsome sloth. – Spenser.
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