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unˈwilling, ppl. a.
[OE. unwillende (un-1 10), = ON. and Icel. ú-, óviljandi. Cf. MLG. unwillendes. Re-formed in 16th cent.]
†1. Of persons: Not intending, purposing, or desiring (to do a particular thing). Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past C. xxxiii. 214 Ðæt hie [sc. the impatient] ne hliepen unwillende on ðæt scorene clif unðeawa. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 862 Wyþ þat schote his ffader he slow; Al unwylland þat draught he drow.
2. Of persons, etc.: Not inclined, willing, or ready; averse, reluctant, loath. Also in fig. context.
In quot. 1606 the comparative is used with adverbial force, = more unwillingly.
c1000in Ags. Hom. (Assmann) 180 Min drihten hit wat, þæt ic hit unwillende do, þæt ic æfre þas dæda ᵹefremme.
1538Elyot, Inuitus,..vnwyllynge, or agaynste a mannes wylle. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, Marching..with vnwilling souldiers faintly arm'd. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 245 You gaue leaue to my vnwilling tong, Against my will, to do my selfe this wrong. 1606G. Woodcocke Hist. Ivstine ix. 40 To which request Phillip vrged he should of reason so much the vnwillinger condiscend. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 32 The tardiest, and the unwillingest of them that praise yee. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. i. viii. 9 With unwilling Ear The Voice of Comfort, or of Health I hear. 1761Gray Descent of Odin 49 Unwilling I my lips unclose. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam xi. xiv, On each unwilling heart Unusual awe did fall. 1849James Woodman vii, Evidently intended to bring up unwilling eels out of their native mud. 1870Bryant Iliad iv. I. 106, I fully yield me to thy wish Though with unwilling mind. 1897Nicholson Golspie 22 This unwilling workman's curse lay on the family for ever.
absol.a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxvii, Thus armed, thus governed, forcing the unwilling,..they came headlong towarde this lodge. a1658Lovelace Poems (1904) 193 Fates lead the willing, but unwilling draw. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 44 Counsel acts only upon the willing, law upon the unwilling also.
b. Const. to with inf., or with clause.
In very frequent use from c 1630, usu. with to and inf.
1533Sir T. More Debell. Salem Wks. 1030/2, I..shewe my selfe vnwilling that the priestes should doe it neither. 1548Elyot s.v. Respuo, To be vnwillyng to here hym speake. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. ix, And so went they away from verie unwilling people to leave them. 1618Selden Hist. Tithes III. vi. 1114 Every man..would have been the unwillinger to have specially endowed the church. 1664in Verney Memoirs (1907) II. 212, I am unwilling you should be soe much alone. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 115, I was unwilling to run any more risks. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 287 We should be very unwilling to offend him. 1821Scott Kenilw. vi, I own I were unwilling he should learn what nowise concerns him. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 28 Then my fellow takes the tale up, not unwilling to aver..‘I knew him best of all’.
c. transf. of things.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1051 Her eyes,..being open'd, threw unwilling light Upon the wide wound..in his soft flank. 1593― Lucr. 309 As each unwilling portal yields him way. 1692Dryden Don Sebastian iii. i, Why shou'd you pluck the green distasteful Fruit From the unwilling Bough. 1697― Virg. Georg. i. 144 For he, with frequent exercise, commands The unwilling soil, and tames the stubborn lands. 1704Trapp Abra-Mulé ii. i. 416 A stiff unwilling Bow. 1748Gray Alliance 43 There industry and gain their vigils keep, Command the Winds, and tame th' unwilling Deep. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton iv, She..lighted the unwilling fire, borrowing a pair of bellows to make it burn the faster. 1896Idler March 291/2, I..pushed open the unwilling baize-covered door.
†3. Undesirous of something. Obs. rare.
a1575tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden, No. 29) 54 Neyther partie was unwilling of peace. 1590Peele Polyhemnia Wks. 1829 II. 210 On lusty horse That, angry with delay,.. Would snort,..Unwilling of his master's tarriance.
†4. unwilling to (unwilling unto), contrary to the will or desire of (a person). Obs. rare.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 334 They shall not touche any thynge of yowres vnwyllyng vnto yow. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. 171 Your hair (unwilling to your self) discovers you.
†5. Involuntary; unintentional; unwilled. Obs.
1535Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. vii. lv. 105 b/2 Somtyme comyth vnwyllynge pyssynge, and that euyll hyghte..Diabethica passio. 1587Golding De Mornay 519 This high preest shalbe the..speech of God, cleere from sinne aswel willing as vnwilling. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 159 Patience I pray you, 'twas a fault vnwilling. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 842 Good fortune may present some happier time, With means to cancel my unwilling crime.
6. Performed or manifested, expressed or avowed, reluctantly or unwillingly.
1613in Sidney's Arcadia (1629) 343 Then went hee towards Pyrocles..and acquainted him with his vnwilling absenting himselfe. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. iv. v. 403 That soft delays..to an unwilling stay His fierce pursuers would ere long betray. 1665Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. viii. 29 It can [not] be acceptable to God to see men croutch in this fashion to him, and..afford him their unwilling prostrations. 1741W. Whitehead Danger Writing Verse 235 Must the Muse th' unwilling task pursue? 1764Goldsm. Trav. 352 Fictitious bonds, the bonds of wealth and law, Still gather strength, and force unwilling awe. 1822Milman Belshazzar 93 Oh! bear a brief unwilling banishment From thine own home, my heart. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 529 That sagacity and energy which had..extorted the unwilling admiration of his enemies. |