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ill will, ill-will, n.|ˈɪlˈwɪl|
[In early use northern, corresp. to ON. illvili, f. ill-r adj. + vili n. ‘will’. In ME. usually written as two words: cf. evil will, OE. (his) yfela willa.
Cf. also L. malevolentia, of which, and the adjs. malevolens, malevolus, this and the following words are often the English renderings.]
1. Evil or hostile feeling or intention towards another; malevolence, malice, enmity, dislike.
a1300Cursor M. 7834 (Cott.) Qua lais hand in feloni..Or of hill wil him mai not quitte. c1340Ibid. 25947 (Fairf.) Þat first was þoȝt wiþ iuel il wille. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Mathias 390 Þe Iowis, þat tuk tent here til, For Inwy and gret ill wyll. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxx. 240 Ye do me greate wronge to owe me youre yll wyll. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 474 Jnuie, ilwil, adulatione or flatrie. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 71 Why looke you so vpon me? Phe. For no ill will I beare you. 1755Young Centaur i. Wks. 1757 IV. 108 It is both folly, and vice, to bear any man ill-will. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxvii, How comes it, then, that thy steps are haunted by general ill-will?
attrib.a1832Bentham Deontology Wks. 1834 II. 263 Correspondent to that same good-will fund there is an ill-will fund.
†2. with an ill will, unwillingly. Obs.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 61 They are drawne from their houses with an ill will.
Hence † ill-will v. trans., to regard with ill will, wish evil to.
1568North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. (1582) 423 The beloued of the Princes is commonly ill willed of the common weale. |