unwilla
See also: Unwilla
Old English
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editNoun
editunwilla m
- displeasure
- that which causes displeasure
- absence of goodwill; dislike
- unwillingness, reluctance, unwill
- that which is unwanted or undesired
- (often + genitive unwilling person) used in the dative plural to express lack of willingness or consent, where Modern English would use an adverb or prepositional phrase: unwillingly, unconsensually, without one's consent, against one's will
- Iċ ēode mīnum unwillum on dēofles hūs.
- I went into the Devil's house, against my will.
Declension
editDeclension of unwilla (weak)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- English: unwill
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “UNWILLA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “UNWIL”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.