loathfulness

English

Etymology

From loathful +‎ -ness.

Noun

loathfulness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Proteus […] reading it with inward loathfulnesse, / Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.