unlust
nounEtymology From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.
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Rare Displeasure; dislike.
- 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.1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives:
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Obsolete listlessness; disinclination.
- We fynde in oure silves vnlust and tediousnes to do good.1526, William Tyndale, A compendious introduction, prologue, or preface into the epistle of Paul to the Romans:
- In all hys meates lette a litle saffron be put:..but it causeth vnluste in the stomacke.1561, Hieronymus von Brunschwig, translated by John Hollybush, A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye:
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- Yf you once fawl to lasynes or unlust..than is the scarby redy to catch you by the bones.1582, diary of Richard Madox: