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unlust
English
Etymology
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
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.
- 1983, Alison Waley, A Half of Two Lives:
- (obsolete) listlessness; disinclination.
- He doth all thing with annoye, and with wrawnesse, slaknesse, and excusation, with idlenesse and unlust.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *unlustuz. Equivalent to un- +? lust. Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (unlustus, “apathy, listlessness”) and German Unlust (“lack of desire, aversion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?un?lust/
Noun
unlust m
- absence of desire; disgust, disinclination, listlessness
- want of pleasure; joylessness, weariness
- evil pleasure, lust
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: unlust
- English: unlust
Derived terms
- unlustian
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “unlust”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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unlusty
English
Etymology
un- +? lusty
Adjective
unlusty (comparative more unlusty, superlative most unlusty)
- Not lusty.
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