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unlust en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

1. (countable, rare, uncountable) Displeasure; dislike.
   • 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. 1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) listlessness; disinclination.
   • We fynde in oure silves vnlust and tediousnes to do good. 1526, William Tyndale, A compendious introduction, prologue, or preface into the epistle of Paul to the Romans:
   • In all hys meates lette a litle saffron be put:..but it causeth vnluste in the stomacke. 1561, Hieronymus von Brunschwig, translated by John Hollybush, A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye:
   • Yf you once fawl to lasynes or unlust..than is the scarby redy to catch you by the bones. 1582, diary of Richard Madox:

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