Meaning

Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.
2. (transitive) To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• unwills
• unwilling
• unwilled

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