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ill-willer

ill-willer noun: one who harbours ill will.

Noun

ill-willer (plural ill-willers)

  1. (obsolete) One who harbours ill will.
    • These are the wordes (worthie Prince) wherewith you have pricked forwardes the violence of my malicious ill willers […]1598, Robert Tofte, “A most excellent patheticall, and passionate Letter of Duke D’Epernoun, Minion, unto Henry the third, King of France and Polonia”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, Alba, The...
    • Proofs were required and alleadged, so many, and so evident, that the Gentleman himself, stricken with remorse of his inconsiderate and unkind dealing, acknowledged himself to have deserved death, yea many deaths; for that he conspired, not only the overthrow of the action, but of the principall...1628, Francis Fletcher et al., The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, London: Nicholas Bourne, 1652, p. 30
    Synonyms:
    evil willer

ill-willer meaning in Malayalam

ill-willer in Malayalam

ill-willer, evil willer
ദ്രോഗ്ധാവ് drōgdhāvŭ

Synonyms of ill-willer

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Forms of ill-willer

pluralill-willers

Origin of ill-willer

Possibly a calque of Latin malevolēns from male (“ill”) + volēns (“(one) wishing”). By surface analysis, ill will + -er.

Words that rhyme with ill-willer

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Questions about ill-willer

What does ill-willer mean?
Ill-willer means one who harbours ill will.
What is ill-willer in Malayalam?
Ill-willer in Malayalam is ദ്രോഗ്ധാവ് (drōgdhāvŭ). See Ill-willer meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is ill-willer?
Ill-willer is a noun.
What is the plural of ill-willer?
The plural of ill-willer is ill-willers.

Words near ill-willer in the dictionary

  1. ill-used
  2. ill-uses
  3. ill-using
  4. ill-will
  5. ill-willed
  6. ill-willer
  7. ill-willers
  8. ill-willing
  9. ill-wish
  10. ill-wished
  11. ill-wisher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-willer (page history and authors); ദ്രോഗ്ധാവ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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