nolens volens
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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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 Walter Thornbury
People in Morocco, as all the world over, collect curiosities nolens volens.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
If the world was to be converted nolens volens it might as well have been peopled from the first by beings incapable of error.
From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham
"Each age has its own style of attire, and nolens volens, we have to conform to fashion," said the recumbent figure on the sofa without disturbing itself further.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
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 Marian Gouverneur
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