ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Willes

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Willes is a noun meaning plural of wille.

Meaning

plural of wille.

Example Sentences

The latter bond of adherence was, however, the more slender; for, in the acts regulating the borders, we find repeated mention of "Clannes having captaines and chieftaines, whom on they depend, oft-times against the willes of their landeslordes."
King Edmund, who hated nothing woorse than to linger his businesse, assembled his people, and marching forward toward his enimies, approched neere vnto them, & pitcht downe his tents not farre from his enimies campe, exhorting his people to remember their passed victories, and to doo their good willes, at length by one battell so to ouerthrow them, that they might make an end of the warre, and dispatch them cleerelie out of the realme.

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Related dictionary entries include volition, shall, wish, bequeath, testament, leave.

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