Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unwill

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-will
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.

verb

To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Woe to him that shall be under His unwill!"
"They are major poets out of whak, twisted and balked by unwill."
"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."
"If women are showing "technological ineptitude" and are "disinclined towards technology" by showing an "unwill" to co-operate technologically, does this merely indicate stupidity?"
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + will (noun). Compare Dutch onwil.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unwills (plural) unwills (present, singular) unwilling (participle, present) unwilled (participle, past) unwilled (past)

Questions

What does unwill mean?: Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.
Where does unwill come from?: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + will (noun). Compare Dutch onwil.

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