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unwilled

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un·willed  (n-wld)
adj.
Involuntary; spontaneous.
unwilled [ʌnˈwɪld]
adj
not intentional; involuntary
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Adj.1.unwilled - without deliberate intentunwilled - without deliberate intent; "my heart with unwilled love grew warm"- George Macdonald
unintentional
unwilling - not disposed or inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant"; "unwilling to face facts"
2.unwilled - without deliberate volitionunwilled - without deliberate volition          
involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary - not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy
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14) And the words used by those contributing to one project might carry associations, willed or unwilled, with other, potentially incompatible projects.
Reading Tudor writing politically: the case of 2 Henry IV by Burrow, Colin / Yearbook of English Studies
It lacks the compelling artistic energy of managed suspense, which--even in the most artful of modernist fiction--is still the one pre-condition of the unwilled pleasure that inheres in any truly joyful reading.
Great disappointments: ten LRC contributors warn of "classic" books ... by Fraser, Marian Botsford; Jarman, Mark; Murphy, Rex; Edugyan, Esi; Potter, Andrew; Stein, Janice Gros / Literary Review of Canada
And this, from Robert Fitzgerald (The Third Kind of Knowledge, 1993): Beginning in boyhood, on a Sunday walk in winter, I had had to distinguish between ordinary experience, including that of the senses, mind, and imagination--almost all, in short--and extraordinary experience, a kind that was rare, unwilled, sui generis, and superior.
False trust: how intelligent design misleads believers by Garvey, John / Commonweal
 
 
 
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