unwilled
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unwilled
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It is an unwilled loss of distinction between the simulation and that which is being simulated, including the adventures and quests of WoW.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014
It is a powerful and unwilled form of identification, a Houdini-like vanishing act that allows Bolaño to merge with his scariest and most repellent creations as much as with his likable ones.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2014
Here, however, the dividing line generally sought between willed and unwilled, involuntary, or, as we say, drifting thought, becomes dim and uncertain.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body.
From The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
Also from such there probably sometimes went forth unwilled emanations that were naturally attracted to other sensitives, who perceived their source, and pronounced it diabolical, because the influx thence was annoying.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
