1. Lack of health and strength; physical weakness or debility. Obs.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Hawking, b vi b. A medecyne that an hawke shall not lie in mew for unlustynese.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, xlix. 15. [Gaping] doth come of unlustines or els for lake of slepe.
1596. Barrough, Meth. Physick, VIII. 470. When … the wearinesse or the vnlustinesse of the sinewes is to bee asswaged.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, Introd. 4. Vnlustinesse of the limmes.
2. Lack of cheerfulness or readiness; dullness; disinclination.
a. 1470. H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), I. lix. 101/2. Melodye was ordeyned in holy chirche … to put awaye heuynesse & unlustynesse.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), IV. xxx. 350. By unlustynes in dyffaylynge without desyre to do well.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. x. 54. Wee see what vnlustinesse is in vs when God commaundith vs any thing.
