unlust

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noun

Displeasure; dislike.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

noununlust (countable and uncountable, plural unlusts)

plural unlusts

  1. countablerareuncountableDispleasure; dislike.

    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.

    1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives
  2. countableobsoleteuncountablelistlessness; disinclination.

    We fynde in oure silves vnlust and tediousnes to do good.

    1526, William Tyndale, A compendious introduction, prologue, or preface into the epistle of Paul to the Romans
    2 more examples

    In all hys meates lette a litle saffron be put:..but it causeth vnluste in the stomacke.

    1561, Hieronymus von Brunschwig, translated by John Hollybush, A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye

    Yf you once fawl to lasynes or unlust..than is the scarby redy to catch you by the bones.

    1582, diary of Richard Madox

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*unlustuz“listlessness”
  2. Proto-West Germanic*unlust
  3. Old Englishunlust“displeasure, dislike”
  4. Middle Englishunlust
  5. Englishunlust

From Middle English unlust, from Old English unlust (“displeasure, dislike”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlust, from Proto-Germanic *unlustuz (“listlessness”). Equivalent to un- + lust.

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