Meanings
plural nolitions
- obsoleteunwillingness.
1 more example
[S]o long as the prayer is fervent, so long the man hath a nolition, and a direct enmity against the lust; he consents not all that while; but when the month is gone, and the prayer is removed, or becomes less active, then the temptation returns, and forages, and prevails, and seizes upon all our unguarded strengths.
1653, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon V. [The Return of Prayers; or, The Conditions of a Prevailing Prayer.] Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 76Antonyms: volition
Synonyms & antonyms
noununwillingness.
Origin
Latin nōlō (“not to will, to be unwilling”), patterned after volition from Latin volō.
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