Ill-willer

Quick meaning: Ill-willer is a noun meaning (obsolete) One who harbours ill will.

Meaning

(obsolete) One who harbours ill will.

Example Sentences

These are the wordes (worthie Prince) wherewith you have pricked forwardes the violence of my malicious ill willers […]

[…] Sirs, this knave arrow likes me not. But it importeth rather to take counsel. Who should this be? Bethink you, Bennet. Of so many black ill-willers, which should he be that doth so hardily outface us?

[Y]our ill-willers may, according to the custom of such persons, impute motives for your journey, whereof, although we know and believe you to be as clear as ourselves, yet natheless their words may find credence in places where the belief in them may much prejudice you […]

1736, Benjamin Franklin, Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736, in The Prefaces, Proverbs and Poems of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889, p. 58, These ill-willers of mine, despited at the great reputation I gain’d by exactly predicting another man’s death, have endeavoured to deprive me of it all at once in the most effectual manner, by reporting that I myself was never alive.

Word Forms

• ill-willers

Antonyms for ill-willer

Common opposites include well-willer, well-wisher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ill-wisher, illwisher, weevil, idler, goodwilly, witworm.

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