a. (UN-1 7.)
Chiefly const. of (also that, to).
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 289. That vice would render me as unworthy, as undesirous to live.
1670. Devout Commun. (1688), 15. The qualms of undesirous Communicants.
1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 230. This hasty measure has embarrassed England, undesirous of war if it can be avoided.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. i. § 11. To a being undesirous of it, and hating it, revelation is impossible.
1879. Athenæum, 13 May. Forcing the crude productions of his mind on an undesirous world.
