nills

_Hetty Came_ shood lorn ta knitty; an a shood buy zum knittin nills and wusterd vor er; an a shood git er zum nills and dird, vor er to lorn to zawy too.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

What may he do who nills his uncle ever be husband?

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

Our Wills, it is true, at first were made upright and perfect, every way correspondent to the Will of God himself, so as to will what he wills, that is what is really Good, and to nill what he nills, that is what is really Evil.

Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

To say that God absolutely nills the being and commission of sin, while experience convinces us that sin is acted every day, is to represent the Deity as a weak, impotent being who would fain have things go otherwise than they do, but cannot accomplish His desire. "

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

But whether the Iriih perfonages called Ta - nifb derived their name from the vulgar appdk - tive of the annular finger, or rather, vice verfi, we are fiill to feek for the original meaning of the word Tanift, and confequently that of its deri - vative Taniftry; a literary kind of difquifition i ihould be ill difpofed to trouble the reader or myfelf with, but that I think it may be of foine ufe towards difcovering the origin and antiquity, as well as the nature and extent of the power and privileges which were veiled in the ancient Ta - nills.

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786