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well-willing en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English welewillynge, welwillende, from Old English welwillende (“well-wishing, benevolent, kindly, good”), equivalent to well + willing.

Meanings

1. Wishing well; well-inclined; favourable; friendly; propitious.
   • This is rational life's first, simplest, most natural longing when at rest: to be always and all-ways good as wholly well-willing for ever—which is essentially good-will's as it is love's self-generated and self-resting thought—for ever and ever ! 1900, The Irish ecclesiastical record, page 39:

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