What is another word for against one's will?

Pronunciation: [ɐɡˈɛnst wˈɒnz wˈɪl] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the phrase "against one's will". One of the most commonly used is "involuntarily", which means something is done without free choice or intention. Another synonym is "unwillingly", which indicates a lack of desire or eagerness. Additionally, "reluctantly" can be used to describe actions that are done with hesitation or resistance. Another option is "coerced", which suggests that someone is being forced or compelled to do something. Finally, "under duress" can be used to describe a situation in which someone is being pressured or threatened into a certain action.

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Famous quotes with Against one's will

  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
    C. S. Lewis
  • In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames. He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passim, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings.
    Stefan Zweig

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