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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.
Noun
[edit]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.
- (obsolete) listlessness; disinclination.
- 1526, William Tyndale, A compendious introduction, prologue, or preface into the epistle of Paul to the Romans:
- We fynde in oure silves vnlust and tediousnes to do good.
- 1561, Hieronymus von Brunschwig, translated by John Hollybush, A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye:
- In all hys meates lette a litle saffron be put:..but it causeth vnluste in the stomacke.
- 1582, diary of Richard Madox:
- Yf you once fawl to lasynes or unlust..than is the scarby redy to catch you by the bones.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]unlust
- listlessness; disinclination
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- He doth all thynge wyth anoye & with wrawnesse, slacknesse, and excusation: wyth ydelnesse and vnlust.
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- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parson’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:
- He doth all thing with annoye, and with wrawnesse, slaknesse, and excusation, with idlenesse and unlust.
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *unlustuz. Equivalent to un- + lust. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (unlustus, “apathy, listlessness”) and German Unlust (“lack of desire, aversion”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]unlust m
- absence of desire; disgust, disinclination, listlessness
- want of pleasure; joylessness, weariness
- evil pleasure, lust
Declension
[edit]Declension of unlust (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “unlust”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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