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Webster 1913 Edition


Unlust

Un-lust′

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Noun.
Listlessness; disinclination.
[Obs.]
“Idleness and unlust.”
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


unlust

unlust

English

Noun

unlust (plural unlusts)

  1. 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.
    Idleness and unlust Chaucer.