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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nolens Volens Whether willing or not. Two Latin participles meaning "being unwilling (or) willing." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compulsion | Under protest, in spite of one's teeth; against one's will; nolens volens; (of necessity); by stress of circumstances, by stress of weather; under press of; de rigueur. |
Necessity | Adverb: necessarily; adVerb: of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute. |
Unwillingness | Adverb: unwillingly; Adjective: grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens; (necessity); perforce; under protest; no; not for the world, far be it from me. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NOLENS VOLENS |
| Specialty definitions using "NOLENS VOLENS": Bon gre mal gre. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "NOLENS VOLENS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (like it or not, willy nilly), Romanian (nolens volens). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nolens volens | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NOLENS VOLENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | do s'do (willy nilly), dashur padashur (willy nilly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | щеш не щеш, по необходимост (indispensably, necessarily, needs, of perforce, perforce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olensnay olensvay quer queira quer não (willy-nilly), por bem ou por mal (willy-nilly). (various references) nolens volens, vrând-nevrând (perforce, willy nilly). (various references) волей-неволей (willy nilly, willy-nilly). (various references) milom ili silom, hteo ne hteo (willy nilly). (various references) med eller mot sin vilja (willy nilly). (various references) ister istemez (necessarily, needs, perforce, willingly or unwillingly, willynilly). (various references) dầu muốn hay không. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-n-n-n-o-o-s-s-v" | |
-3 letters: nonnovels, nonselves. | |
-4 letters: loneness, loveless, nonnovel, nonsense. | |
-5 letters: elevons, loosens, nelsons, novelle, oneness, slovens. | |
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