well-willing

English

Etymology

From Middle English welewillynge, welwillende, from Old English welwillende (well-wishing, benevolent, kindly, good), equivalent to well + willing.

Adjective

well-willing (comparative more well-willing, superlative most well-willing)

  1. Wishing well; well-inclined; favourable; friendly; propitious.
    • 1900, The Irish ecclesiastical record - Page 39:
      This is rational life's first, simplest, most natural longing when at rest: to be always and all-ways good as wholly well-willing for ever—which is essentially good-will's as it is love's self-generated and self-resting thought—for ever and ever !
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