† Wilne v.

Obs. Also 3 welne, 4–6 wylne, 5 willne, wol(l)ne. [OE. wilnian, f. wil-, stem of WILL sb.¹, WILL v.¹ + -n- formative + -ian- Y². Cf. ON. vilna to favor, 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. 898.  Ælfred, Boeth., xxxvi. § 4. Ʒif ðu æniʓne mon ʓesihst 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.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xix. 141. Se bið … Godes ʓewinna 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. Ibid. (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 beʓitanne.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke xxiii. 8. He wilnode hine ʓeseon.

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.