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Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorywill not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action. · doesn't want to
From earlier wonnot, from Middle English wynnot, wilnot, wolnot, wilnat, a contraction of Middle English will not, wil not, wyll not, will noght, wil noht, willi noȝt, wyl nat, wol not, woll not, wole not, wolle not, wol nat, woll nat, etc., equivalent to a will + not and/or woll + not. For the pronunciation with /oʊ/, /əʊ/, see poultry.
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