▪ I. † wilne, n. Obs. rare.
[f. next.]
Desire.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 13768 All the pure Troiens..Were deliuert yche lede, & lause at hor willne. |
▪ II. † wilne, v. Obs.
Also 3 welne, 4–6 wylne, 5 willne, wol(l)ne.
[OE. wilnian, f. wil-, stem of will n.1, will v.1 + -n- formative + -ian -y2. Cf. ON. vilna to favour, refl. to hope (cf. örvilnask to despair).]
To desire. a. trans. with simple obj. (in OE. gen. or acc.).
| Beowulf 188 Drihten secean, and to fæder fæþmum freoðo wilnian. c 888 ælfred Boeth. xxxvi. §4 Ᵹif ðu æniᵹne mon ᵹesihst wilnian ðæs ðe he næfð. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 13 Ne wilne þu oðres monnes wif. c 1205 Lay. 1073 Ȝef us þat we wilniað. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6301 Ichabbe quaþ knout ywilned þi kinedom ar þis, & nou wel more þan þi lond þi sulue ich wilni ywis. a 1300 Leg. Rood ii. (1871) 20 Ich wilny muche my deþ. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶443 Thy neighebore artow holden for to loue and wilne hym alle goodnesse. c 1400 Destr. Troy 3996 Of wemen werkes wilnet ho none. ? 1464 Paston Lett. II. 171 To..wilne yow goode wylle and trewe hert. |
(b) with clause or acc. and inf.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xix. 141 Se bið..Godes ᵹewinna se se ðe wilnað ðæt he hæbbe ða weorðunga..ðe God habban sceolde. c 1050 O.E. Chron. (MS. C) an. 977 He wilnode þæt his lic ræst sceolde beon æt Cridiantune, æt his bisceop stole. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iii. 121, I not nat what ȝe wilne þat I seye. c 1384 ― H. Fame iii. 4 Nat that I wilne, for maistrye, Here Art poetical be shewed. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 196 Wherbi is excludid and wilned of Crist to be removed, that eny man schulde worschipe God bi eny outward ymagis. c 1475 Partenay 3178 Wilnyng you to come hastly thys instaunce. c 1540 Pilgryms T. 108 in Thynne's Animadv. (1875) 80 What rekis them, the sayng of paull, Which wylnith ‘to men we shall not call’? |
(c) with inf. (with or without to).
| c 888 ælfred Boeth. xxiv. §2 ælc mod wilnað soðes godes to beᵹitanne. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xxiii. 8 He wilnode hine ᵹeseon. c 1205 Lay. 1892 Heora eiþer wilnada oðer [c 1275 aiþer wilnede oþer] to wælden. a 1300 Leg. Rood ii. (1871) 20 Of is lif he was anuyd, he wilnede be of dawe. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 4 Tyl I wex wery of þe worlde, and wylned eft to slepe. c 1430 Hymns Virgin (1867) 99 In good praiers þou muste wake, And neuere wilne to do a-mys. 1447 Bekynton Corr. (Rolls) II. 341, I..suppose that..ye wold..wilne exhorte..al tho to whom [etc.]. c 1450 Mirk's Festial 285 Ȝif ȝe wollnoth to haue mercy of God. |
b. intr.; simply or const. after, for, to; also with ellipsis of inf.
| a 1000 Andreas 283 (Gr.) Þu wilnast nu ofer widne mere. c 1200 Moral Ode 319 (Trin. Coll. MS.), We wilnieð after wereldes wele. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Hire beoð wo þat hie sal þer-inne wunien, and þere-fore wilneð ut. c 1205 Lay. 2626 Heo wilneden [c 1275 welnede] after worre. c 1230 Hali Meid. (Titus) 125 Ne þarf þe bute wilnen, & lete godd wurchen. c 1350 Will. Palerne 3563 As redili araiȝed as any rink þort wilne. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 387 Þei wilnen and wolde as best were for hem-selue. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2224, I watte be thi wauerynge thow willnez aftyre sorowe. Ibid. 3479 Whedire wilnez thowe, wye, walkand thyne onne? c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. iv. 295 That Crist schulde wilne and bidde in lijk maner to eny other man. |