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nould

nould verb: would not.

Verb

nould

  1. (obsolete) Would not.
    • Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11

Forms of nould

alternative formnoulde

Origin of nould

From Middle English nolde (“would not”), from Old English nolde, first and third person preterite of nyllan (“will not”), from ne- (“not”) + wyllan (“will”). More at ne, will.

Questions about nould

What does nould mean?
Nould means would not.
What part of speech is nould?
Nould is a verb.

Words near nould in the dictionary

  1. noughts
  2. noughts and crosses
  3. noughtwithstanding
  4. noughty
  5. noughtye
  6. nould
  7. noumeaite
  8. noumeite
  9. noumena
  10. noumenal
  11. noumenality

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