nolens volens
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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One night, nolens volens, decision was forced on him.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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 Friedrich Spielhagen
I went to his bedroom door; it was locked from the outside, so I perforce remained where I was, to, nolens volens, witness the finish of last night's interview.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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
That is a way of putting it which is more in accordance with facts, for we—Donald, Dugald, and I—mounted him, and the pony did the rest, he, Archie, being legally speaking nolens volens.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
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