Ill-willer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who harbours ill will. obsolete

    "These are the wordes (worthie Prince) wherewith you have pricked forwardes the violence of my malicious ill willers […]"

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evil willer

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"These are the wordes (worthie Prince) wherewith you have pricked forwardes the violence of my malicious ill willers […]"

Etymology

Possibly a calque of Latin malevolēns from male (“ill”) + volēns (“(one) wishing”). By surface analysis, ill will + -er.

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