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wel-willende

  • adjective
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wel-willende, adj. (ptcpl. )
of good will, benevolent, benignant, kind
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  • Welwillende

    beniuolus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 14; Zup. 87, 17.

  • Ic ðé hálsie, ðú árfæsta, welwilende and welwyrcende Dryhten,

      Shrn. 169, 19.

  • Swá him gewissode se welwillenda God,

      Jud. 6, 14: Homl. Ass. 55, 122.

  • Se wellwillenda bisceop Æðelwold (cf. Adelwoldus benevolus et venerabilis presul,

      Homl. Th. i. 1, 3), Chr. 984; Erl. 130, 1.
  • Se wellwillenda man wyle eáðe forberan gif hine man áhwǽr týnð, Basil admn. 4; Norm. 44, 17.

  • Hé hit þearfum dǽlde mid wellwillendum móde,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 59.

  • Tó ðam welwillendan Hǽlende,

      Homl. Th. ii. 230, 11: Homl. Ass. 80, 186: 101, 329.

  • Wynsum ús byð ðæt wé welwyllende beón,

      10, 267.

  • Gebyreþ ðætte sume, ða ðe welwillende beóð, on monegum weorcum unfæste beóð ongietene

    contigit, ut quidam cum cordis innocentia in nonnullis suis actibus infirmi videantur,

      Past. 34; Swt. 235, 17.

  • Ða welwillendan

    benevoli,

      Swt. 229, 10.
of right will, right-minded
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  • Ðá Dauid ðysne sealm sancg, ðá gealp hé and fægnode Godes fultumes wið his feóndum; and swá déð ǽlc welwillende man, ðe ðisne sealm singð,

      Ps. Th. 4, arg.
Etymology
[Þ dol, þet God ȝefþ to his welwilynde . . . þet is to alle guode herten, Ayenb. 112, 11. Welewyllynge or of god wylle, welwyllyd benevolus, Prompt. Parv. 521.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wel-willende.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/35044.

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