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un-wil

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
un-wil, un-will, es; n.
Absence of good will, dislike, despite, repugnance, reluctance;
against one's will, not willingly, without one's consent, without intention, involuntarily, is (almost) the only case used.
Grammar
un-wil, alone
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  • Gif hé hit dide unwilles

    si praeter voluntatem id fecerit,

    • L. Ecg. P. ii. 1
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 182, 13.
  • Unwilles wé magon forleósan ða hwílwendlícan gód, ac wé ne forleósaþ nǽfre unwilles ða écan gód,

    • Homl. Th. i. 576, 7-9: Hexam. 17
    • ;
    • Norm. 26, 3.
  • Gif ðú mé unwilles gewemman dést,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 9, 90.
  • Hé ðǽr wunode ða niht unwilles, se ðe sylfwilles nolde,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 184, 13: L. Eth. vi. 52
    • ;
    • Th. i. 328, 21.
Grammar
un-wil, with pronouns
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  • Þeáh ðú mé geoffrige mínes unwilles, ic beó þeáh unscyldig,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 9, 87.
  • Hire unwilles

    invita ipsa,

    • L. Ecg. P. ii. 15, tit.
    • ;
    • Th. ii, 180, 27.
  • Heó wæs hire unwilles fram him

    ab eo invita aberat,

    • 15
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 186, 29.
  • Heora unwilles,

    • L. Edg. S. 2
    • ;
    • Th, i. 274, 5.
Etymology
[Ich mot nede, ant neoðeles min unwil hit is to don al ꝥ ti wil is,
  • Marh. 13, 3.
Ha wes him ihondsald þah hit hire unwil were,
  • Jul. 7, 12.
Heo wes ihondsald al hire unwilles,
  • 6, 5.
]
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