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- noun Plural form of
well-willer .
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Examples
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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
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The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.
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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
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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
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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
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But when he was entreated by the captain, master, and other his well-willers of the _Hind_ not to venture in the frigate, this was his answer: _I will not forsake my little company going homeward, with whom
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Edward Hayes
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The guard that was set about the queen's chamber was doubled, and all were knights that were well-willers to the plots of Sir Mordred and Sir
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.
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But when he was entreated by the captain, master, and other his well-willers of the Hind not to venture in the frigate, this was his answer: I will not forsake my little company going homeward, with whom I have passed so many storms and perils.
Sir Humphrey Gilberts Voyage to Newfoundland. Paras. 50-83 1909
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With great applause of all well-willers, wishing grace unto the work.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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