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nill

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Definition:
a contraction of "not will", i.e. will not; won't

the one surviving artifact from this word is "willy-nilly", to acty indecisively. It could have been "willy-wonty"
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"Of that water, if that it be your will."
"Nay, nay," quoth Plato, "certain that I n'ill.

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes, — mark you that:

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.610, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/610/mode/1up
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