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unwill en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From un- (“lack or absence of”) + will (noun). Compare Dutch onwil.
Meanings
Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.
Woe to him that shall be under His unwill! 1895, Kuno Meyer, The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living:
They are major poets out of whak, twisted and balked by unwill. 1988, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 5:
If women are showing "technological ineptitude" and are "disinclined towards technology" by showing an "unwill" to co-operate technologically, does this merely indicate stupidity? 2009, Amanda du Preez, Gendered Bodies and New Technologies:
The first challenge to shaping and taming this emerging world is the will itself and the human problem of unwill, especially in relation to femininity. 2005, Melodie Calvert, Jennifer Terry, Processed Lives:
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unwill en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
From un- (reverse action prefix) + will (verb).
Meanings
(transitive) To annul or reverse by an act of the will.
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. 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 8, lines 37–42:
You can't back up like a dumptruck and unwill the actions of the past, much as we may long to. And you can never unwill children — though some people like to make such remarks when they're in great distress or trying to show off, or in some other desperate state. 2007, Joan Frank, The Great Far Away, page 167:
Accordingly, a Gnostic will to glorification is a will to unwill, a will to unwill itself , and to unwill itself as a free and an active will, a will whose very actuality freely enacts a continual enslavement of itself. 1990, Thomas J. J. Altizer, Genesis and Apocalypse, page 83:
But if it can will and unwill, it can also love and hate, and if it can love and hate, it can also in some small degree do the works of the law and believe the gospel. 1969, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson, Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation: