Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To will the reverse of; reverse one's will in regard to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

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  • verb transitive To annul or reverse by an act of the will.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ will

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Examples

  • As Americans are shaking their fists in the air over the payout of AIG bonuses, the Obama Administration took the nauseating position that it was unable to prevent the payment of bonuses and is unwill ...

    Sheila Tendy: Dangling from the AIG Noose - Our Slow and Painful Strangulation 2009

  • As Americans are shaking their fists in the air over the payout of AIG bonuses, the Obama Administration took the nauseating position that it was unable to prevent the payment of bonuses and is unwill ... digg

    Sheila Tendy: Dangling from the AIG Noose - Our Slow and Painful Strangulation 2009

  • But his spectrem onlymergeant crested from the irised sea in plight, calvitousness, loss, nngnr, gliddinyss, unwill and snorth.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Maldeev could not promote Khi'santh to the level of her ability, because she was still unwill-ing to take a rider.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • Swiftly, unwill - ing to think about what she was doing, she shook the Stones into her hand and quickly closed her fingers about them.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Yet he proved in the end unwill - ing to admit that avowed Christians whose inter - pretations of the Scriptures differed widely from his own should be allowed to propagate their beliefs.

    LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

  • If the danger represented by going through an untested box had been presented to him when he'd been a box trooper he'd have gone-unwill­ingly and afraid-but he'd have gone.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • Ðe  {70} asse þe ure helende uppe set. ben þo forsinegede þe hauen al here þonc uppen eorðliche richeise. ⁊ sinne hem is loð to leten. ⁊ unwill [i] che to bete. for hem þincheð þ̵ godes hese heuieliche semeð. ⁊ naðeles gif hie ful don hie shulen on heuene endelese mede fon.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • In some cases (L29-30) … social order quickly broke down with parents unwill ing to …, servants flee ing and bodies left dead …, the stench tell ing …

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tseng913 2010

  • You seem unwill, or unable, to see the bigger picture.

    Techdirt 2009

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