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  • noun Plural form of willer.

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Examples

  • By no means all indentured servants were “free-willers.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • They lived in tremenjus splendor at home in their pyturnle alls, and had no end of pallises, willers, and town and country resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo.

    Burlesques 2006

  • They lived in tremenjus splendor at home in their pyturnle alls, and had no end of pallises, willers, and town and country resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • The Lady was welcommed home to her owne house, with many moneths of joviall feasting, and as she passed through the streets, all beheld her with admiration, to be so happily recovered from her grave Signior Gentile lived long after, a loyall friend to Nicoluccio and his Lady, and all that were well-willers to them.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Countrey, that there it may make an apparant testimoney, in the sight of all your well-willers, both of your owne vertuous deservings, and my bounty.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Likewise with this Ergo, thou shalt be blessed with the fruition of many friends and well-willers.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Likewise with this Ergo, thou shalt be blessed with the fruition of many friends and well-willers.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • When ye are willers of one will, and when that change of every need is needful to you: there is the origin of your virtue.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • As to his allowing himself to be bullied into going to India, he may not have been quite as reluctant as he suggests; the Governor of Mauritius certainly had no power to compel him, and it may well have been that the Punjab crisis (which had not yet assumed serious proportions) seemed a less daunting prospect than returning to face his ill-willers in England. [p. 22] 4.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

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