unwilled
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unwilled (not comparable)
- Not disposed of in a legal will.
- 1905, John Morley, Rousseau[1]:
- Or is it to go no further than to condemn such a law as that which in England gives unwilled lands to the eldest son?
- Not willed or wished for.
- 1907, Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux, The Unfolding Life[2]:
- In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body.