unlust
English
Etymology
From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.
Noun
unlust (countable and uncountable, plural unlusts)
- (rare) Displeasure; dislike.
- 1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives:
- 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:
- (obsolete) listlessness; disinclination.
- Chaucer
- idleness and unlust
- Chaucer
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unlust”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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