Unwill

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.

    "Woe to him that shall be under His unwill!"

Verb
  1. 1
    To annul or reverse by an act of the will. transitive

    "And as he is, who unwills what he willed, / And by new thoughts doth his intention change, / So that from his design he quite withdraws, / Such I became, upon that dark hillside, / Because, in thinking, I consumed the emprise, / Which was so very prompt in the beginning."

Synonyms

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undesire

Example

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"Woe to him that shall be under His unwill!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + will (noun). Compare Dutch onwil.

Etymology 2

From un- (reverse action prefix) + will (verb).

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