unlust

English

Etymology

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

Noun

unlust (countable and uncountable, plural unlusts)

  1. (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.
  2. (obsolete) listlessness; disinclination.
    • Chaucer
      idleness and unlust

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unlust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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