Meaning of nolleity | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being unwilling; nolition.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“For the latter, it is true indeed, that for the most part it falls out, that every one that is to be punished is unwilling to undergoe it, and there is an improper nolleity (if I may so speak) in nature, unto the subtracting of any good from it, or the immission of any evill upon it; […]”

“He demeriteth ipso facto any Ecclesiastical dignity, that receiveth it not with some nolleity & reluctancie.”

“In ordinary places, which are dependent on the personal offerings of the worshippers, the virtue of voluntaryism is eclipsed by the vice of nolleity.”

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