Definition of "loathe"

Loathing the honeyed cakes, I long for bread.

a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Of Agriculture

To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]

1576, George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, page 20

[…] O Hypocrites! ye hope for Enjoyment of Chriſt, but be perſwaded of it, Chriſt ſhall eternally loath you, and ye ſhall eternally loath Chriſt: […]

1736, Andrew Gray, “Sermon VI. Acts xxvi. 18. [...]”, in Great and Precious Promises: or, Some Sermons Concerning the Promises, and the Right Application thereof. […], Glasgow: Printed by William Duncan, […], page 115

Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe

1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet XXXII”, in Sonnets from the Portuguese

This movie is a historical achievement: Clint Eastwood, an icon of violence, has made us loathe violence as an obscenity. “Mystic River” hurts the way sad stories always hurt, but the craft and love with which it has been made transfigure pain into a moviegoer’s rapture

2003 October 13, The New Yorker

How heartily he serves me! his face loathes one, But look upon his care, who would not love him?

1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, […], published 1653, Act V, signature H2, verso