___ volens (willy-nilly): Lat

Usage examples of nolens.

The result to me is that, nolens volens, I must go up to Estes Park, where I can live without ready money, and remain there till things change for the better.

Finally, nolens volens, Theodoric had to give the order to pick up and move on.

So, nolens volens, I am encumbered with his manuscript and cannot, in conscience, destroy it.

Has it a right, in short, to declare them--ignorant and superstitious as they must necessarily be, from their savage mode of life--to be subjects of Britain, and compel them to become so nolens votens?

I had attained to the state of continuous consciousness, for at night regularly, with the first approaches of drowsiness, I entered nolens volens the four dimensional world.