nolens volens
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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He was born before the days when spurious genealogical charts are thrust at one, nolens volens; but probably this was lucky for him and the public was spared much that is uninteresting.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
He was to understand that nolens volens he was to expatriate himself, he himself was to experience with all their costs and inconveniences the very adventures he had recommended to his pupil!
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules
People in Morocco, as all the world over, collect curiosities nolens volens.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel
The gallant McRae, of the Fifth North Carolina, seeing the Twenty-fourth Virginia hotly engaged, dashed forward, nolens volens, to its relief.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
The rooms were to be kept warm; and, above all, any one who betrayed what the club chose to do or say was to be, nolens volens, banished.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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