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unˈwillingness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being unwilling, reluctant, or loath; reluctance; disinclination.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 149 Norfolke: for thee remaines a heauier dombe, Which I with some vnwillingnesse pronounce. c1600Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 51 How fain she would have..made Her grief, though with unwillingness, to set Open the floodgates of her speech. 1615E. S. Britain's Buss E 2 b, The difficulties that Vnwillingnes hath obiected. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables vii. 248 Unwillingness in doing anything, as if 'twere..forced from one, rather than proceeded from a free inclination. 1720Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 532 Which made me apprehend his unwillingness was not so great as was talked of. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 52 [He] had..been forced into the party, though with added unwillingness. 1825Lamb Elia ii. Wedding, To this unwillingness..may be traced the difference of opinion on this point. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. I. 34 Leigh went towards it with some unwillingness.
b. Const. to, or with that and clause.
In very frequent use with to from c 1650.
(a)1594Southwell M. Magd. Funeral Teares 6 The vn⁓willingnesse that his image should die with her. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1670) 313 [These] do not argue any the least degree of unwillingness in God that men should be saved. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xii. 80 My Unwillingness that one Theme should detain us any longer. 1884Leeds Merc. 24 Oct. 4/4 His profound unwillingness that the question..should be mooted.
(b)1605Ld. Mountague in Facsimiles Nat. MSS. iv. 10 The unwillingnesse I sawe in her to my goeing downe. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §11. 16 Gods unwillingnesse to plague the righteous with the unrighteous. 1712Steele Spect. No. 427 ⁋1 The Unwillingness to receive good Tidings. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 785 An unwillingness to run any great risk. 1882Besant All Sorts xxxiv. (1898) 236 Unwillingness to admit new things..and reluctance to unlearn old things. |