Definition of "loth" []

• Variant of loath. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This (loth, which is manufaciured by the natives, is dyed blue while in the yarn; and as it is of various lliadc;, its look, when it comes to be worn, is very beautiful."
• "Seracini's suspicion is that Vasari was loth to destroy Da Vinci's work, and preferred to brick it up behind a new wall and add his fresco on this."
• "By contrast, Boris is loth to submit to interrogation by the BBC's political editor in London Tim Donovan, because Donovan does know the details and hence the experience would be uncomfortable."