nould
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English nolde (“would not”), from Old English nalde, nolde, first and third person preterite of nyllan (“will not”), from ne- (“not”) + wyllan (“will”). More at ne, will.
Verb
[edit]nould
- (obsolete) Would not.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:
- Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.