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
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 Sherman, John
After dictating these humiliating conditions—which, nolens volens, the defeated bravos are obliged to accept—the young officers leap back into their saddles, and trot off to rejoin the ladies.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
I thought of making him the Pretender, nolens volens, for he is too stupidly honest to look at the whole thing as a merry, and at the same time profitable, masquerade.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
These quantities have to be supplied nolens volens and at prices fixed by the French Army.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
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