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un-lust

  • noun [ masculine ]
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un-lust, es; m.
absence of desire, disgust, disinclination.
want of appetite
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  • Lǽcedóm gif men unlust (cf.

    Ger. Unlust zum Essen
    ) sié getenge,

    • Lchdm. ii. 16, 15: 150, 17.

  • Wiþ metes unluste,

    • 184, 15: 28, 5.

  • Wiþ unluste and wlætan þe of magan cymð,

    • 158, 12.

  • Wiþ sáre and unluste ðæs magan, se ðe ne mæg ne mid mete ne mid drincan beón gelácnod,

    • 158, 17.

  • Hié þrowiaþ ormǽtne þurst and metes unlust,

    • 230, 19.

  • Ungemetlíca metesócna and ungemetlíce unlustas and císnessa,

    • 174, 28.
[Þi mahe wið unlust warpeð hit ( food ) eft ut,
  • H. M. 35, 31.
Icel. ú-lyst a bad appetite.]
disinclination to action, listlessness
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  • Hé (the slothful servant) ðolaþ neádunge þeóstra ðurh wrace, se ðe ǽr lustlíce forbær his unlustes (or underIII? cf. 552, 12) þeóstra,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 556, 22.
[ȝæn unnlusst and forrswundennleȝȝc,
  • Orm. 4562.
He doth alle thing with slaknes and excusacioun, and with ydelnes and unlust,
  • Chauc. Pers. T.
(de accidia).
Goth. wairþan in unlustau άθωμεîν.
]
want of pleasure, joylessness, weariness
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  • For unluste

    pros taedio,

    • Ps. Spl. T. 118, 28.

  • Hé wylleþ hine on ðam wíte, wunaþ unlustum (cf. lustum, on lustum),

    • Salm. Kmbl. 538
      • ;
    • Sal. 268.
[
O. H. Ger. un-lust taedium, fastidium.
]
an evil pleasure, lust
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  • Ne unlust on hire mód ne becom,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 10, 10.

  • Ðá gestód hine micel líchamlíc costung ... hé áwende ðone unlust tó sárnysse,

    • 156, 32.

  • Unlusta

    voluptatum,

    • Scint. 106, 10.

  • Ealle hyra unlustas hí sceolon gebétan sylfwylles on ðyssum lífe, oððe unþances æfter ðyssum lífe,

    • Homl. Th. i. 148, 27.

  • Þurh unlustas

    libidinibus,

    • L. Ecg. C. 5, tit.
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 128, 15.

  • Winnan wið leahtras and unlustas forseón,

    • L. Ælfc. P. 12
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 368, 19.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-lust.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/33506.

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