nould

English

Alternative forms

• noulde

Etymology

From Middle English nolde (“would not”), from Old English nalde, nolde, first and third person preterite of nyllan (“will not”), from ne- (“not”) + wyllan (“will”). More at ne, will.

Verb

nould

1. (obsolete) Would not.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 11:

     Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

Anagrams

• Lound