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unˈwilful, a.
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1. Involuntary; unintentional; undesigned.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xviii. (Bodl. MS.), Un⁓wilful rennyng of teeres falleþ in þe yȝen somtyme of outeward causes. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 38 Þe vnwylfulle confession of fendes ys not to be sette lyght by. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 51 He that leuyth oughte by vnwylfull neglygence..synneth not deadly. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 511/1 Of sinnes some are wilfull and some vnwilfull, or in⁓forced. 1603H. Chettle Eng. Mourn. Garment D 2, How euer wilfull or vnwilfull the acte was, done it was. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 128 Few Years will wash away unwilful Taints. 1751Richardson Clarissa (ed. 4) I. 7 To make excuses..for the perhaps not unwilful slights of those whose approbation we wish to engage.
2. Not wilful, obstinate, or perverse. rare.
1570Levins Manip. 186 Vnwilfull, illicentiosus, continens. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vii. 184 As if, at his years, Lear..could become unwilful, and even pliable. |