Unlust
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Displeasure; dislike. countable, rare, uncountable
"Poetry for me wove its own spell to secure me against all 'unlusts' - all criticisms - even against joylessness: I was set apart; in safety; as secure - in this way - as he. Who was in that audience, I wonder now? That all was success is certain."
- 2 listlessness; disinclination. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"We fynde in oure silves vnlust and tediousnes to do good."
Example
More examples"Poetry for me wove its own spell to secure me against all 'unlusts' - all criticisms - even against joylessness: I was set apart; in safety; as secure - in this way - as he. Who was in that audience, I wonder now? That all was success is certain."
Etymology
From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.
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