Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A contracted form of
ne wilt , wilt not.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Wilt not.
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Examples
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Right of hir hond, and if that thou nilt noon, 1055
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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And now our Lord will suffer thee no longer, but that thou shalt know Him, whether thou wilt or nilt.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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