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Nolition

//nəʊˈlɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    unwillingness. obsolete

    "[S]o long as the prayer is fervent, so long the man hath a nolition, and a direct enmity against the lust; he consents not all that while; but when the month is gone, and the prayer is removed, or becomes less active, then the temptation returns, and forages, and prevails, and seizes upon all our unguarded strengths."

Etymology

Latin nōlō (“not to will, to be unwilling”), patterned after volition from Latin volō.

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