nolens volens
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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The ensuing year he declined a re-election but his constituents informed him he was public property and must be used nolens volens.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
There was a manifest disposition at one time to run me nolens volens, but my friends now understand my position fully, and will not press the point.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
What if the king intended to make me, nolens volens, marry his daughter.
From The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa by E.F. Skinner
In short, nolens volens, Vendel was obliged to open his mouth, and swallow what is erroneously called a thousand sweets, but is, in truth, a hundred thousand bitters.
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai
In 1635 a Turkish pirate ship was brought nolens volens into St. Ives Bay, and the peaceful folk, not immediately recognising her build, were surprised to hear sounds as of guns and firing.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
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