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"ref": "1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):",
"text": "If there bee never a Servant-monster i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he sayes ; nor a nest of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, […]",
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"ref": "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 166:",
"text": "Then ſaid Faint-heart, Deliver thy Purſe; but he making no haſte to do it (for he was loth to loſe his Money,) Miſtrust ran up to him, and thruſting his hand into his Pocket, pull'd out thence a bag of Silver.",
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"ref": "1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 82:",
"text": "\"And thereupon I pledge thee,\" said the young nobleman, \"which on any other argument I were loth to do—thinking of Ned as somewhat the cut of a villain.\"",
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"ref": "1875, Arthur Sullivan (music), W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (lyrics), Trial by Jury. A Novel and Original Dramatic Cantata, London: Walter Smith, […], →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "If I to wed the girl am loth / A breach 'twill surely be—",
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"ref": "1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Alas, So Long!”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, pages 297–298, lines 9–13:",
"text": "Ah! dear one, I've been old so long, / It seems that age is loth to part, / Though days and years have never a song, / And, oh! have they still the art / That warmed the pulses of heart to heart?",
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"ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 274:",
"text": "And, as it happened, reaching up for a sup, / He took a bottle full of poison up / And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, / Drank from it also, and they perished both.",
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"ref": "1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 344:",
"text": "Lyme Regis is such a delightful town that I was loth to leave it,[…].",
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"ref": "March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "They recognise that a strong Chelsea is important for the collective brand. The league, meanwhile, is always loth to create a mess with points deductions, for example. Again, it is not good for the competition.",
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"9": "genitive singular",
"cat2": "",
"f1accel-form": "dat|s",
"f2accel-form": "dat|s",
"f3accel-form": "dat|s",
"f4accel-form": "gen|s",
"f5accel-form": "gen|s",
"f6accel-form": "gen|s",
"f7accel-form": "p",
"f8accel-form": "p",
"f9accel-form": "p",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "loth f (genitive singular lotha, plural lothan)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"g": "f",
"gen": "lotha",
"pl": "lothan"
},
"expansion": "loth f (genitive singular lotha, plural lothan)",
"name": "gd-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"lang_code": "gd",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"foal"
],
"links": [
[
"foal",
"foal"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"filly"
],
"links": [
[
"filly",
"filly"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "loth"
}
Download raw JSONL data for loth meaning in All languages combined (16.3kB)
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"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Old Irish]; cleaned text: Initial mutations of a following adjective: *ᴴ = triggers aspiration *ᴸ = triggers lenition *ᴺ = triggers nasalization",
"path": [
"loth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "loth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: loth/Old Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"loth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "loth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
"loth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "loth",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'nasalization'",
"path": [
"loth"
],
"section": "Old Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "loth",
"trace": ""
}
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