indisposedness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition or quality of being indisposed; disinclination; indisposition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The condition or quality of being indisposed.

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  • noun The condition or quality of being indisposed.

Etymologies

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indisposed +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Many saints have no greater burden in their lives, than that their hearts do not come clearly and fully up, constantly to delight and rejoice in God, — that there is still an indisposedness of spirit unto close walking with him.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • The spirit of slumber, that is, an indisposedness to mind either their duty or interest.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • I confess, there were many impediments in our way, and so there are still, and will be while there is a devil to tempt, and a corrupt heart in man to resist the light: but if the greatest impediment had not been in ourselves, even in our own darkness, and dulness, and indisposedness to duty, and our dividedness and unaptness to close for the work of God, I see not but much might have been done before this.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Geneva, and the present he was pleased to make me of this Treatise before it was printed, in a place where I had opportunities to enquire both after the writer, and some passages of the booke, did at length overcome in me (as to this narrative) all my settled indisposedness to believe strange things. "

    Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

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