unlust

See also: Unlust

English edit

From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- +‎ lust.

unlust (countable and uncountable, plural unlusts)

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

unlust

From Proto-Germanic *unlustuz. Equivalent to un- +‎ lust. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (unlustus, “apathy, listlessness”) and German Unlust (“lack of desire, aversion”).

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Declension of unlust (strong a-stem)

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “unlust”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.