nould

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verb

Would not.

OriginMiddle English nolde ← Old English nolde →
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Meanings

verb

alternative noulde

  1. obsoleteWould 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

Origin

  1. Old Englishnolde
  2. Middle Englishnolde“would not”
  3. Englishnould

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.

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