ppl. a. [UN-1 8 + WILL v.1]
1. Not willed or intended; not decided by the will; involuntary; unintentional; undesigned.
a. 1540. Barnes, Wks. (1573), 309/1. For our Lord can easely beare and suffer an vnwilled ignoraunce.
1598. Florio, Inuoluto, vnwilled, neuer consenting.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 133. We … are judg’d by Law innate, And God for unwill’d Failings will abate.
172[?]. A. Hill, Verses for Mr. Savage, 25. Some secret fate for guilt un will’d … Plung’d me thus deep in sorrow’s searching flood.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Garden, II. 93. She speaks … With words unwill’d, and wisdom not her own.
1803. Jane Porter, Thaddeus, vi. This unfortunate event … was completely unwilled on my part.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiv. 168. At first … [it] Did stir thee with no more than an unwilled Attention.
1857. G. Macdonald, Poems (1867), 68. My heart with unwilled love grew warm.
2. Undesired. rare–0.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongewilt, Vnwilled, or not liked off.
3. Left without being willed or purposed.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, II. 291. Fool, to forget that Will can only be annihilated by Will; that good unwilled is evil willed.
