Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to nill
Participle: nilled
Gerund: nilling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | nill |
| you | nill |
| he;she;it | nills |
| we | nill |
| you | nill |
| they | nill |
Perfect
| I | have nilled |
| you | have nilled |
| he;she;it | has nilled |
| we | have nilled |
| you | have nilled |
| they | have nilled |
Past
| I | nilled |
| you | nilled |
| he;she;it | nilled |
| we | nilled |
| you | nilled |
| they | nilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had nilled |
| you | had nilled |
| he;she;it | had nilled |
| we | had nilled |
| you | had nilled |
| they | had nilled |
Future
| I | will nill |
| you | will nill |
| he;she;it | will nill |
| we | will nill |
| you | will nill |
| they | will nill |
Future Perfect
| I | will have nilled |
| you | will have nilled |
| he;she;it | will have nilled |
| we | will have nilled |
| you | will have nilled |
| they | will have nilled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | nill |
| you | nill |
| he;she;it | nill |
| we | nill |
| you | nill |
| they | nill |
Perfect
| I | have nilled |
| you | have nilled |
| he;she;it | have nilled |
| we | have nilled |
| you | have nilled |
| they | have nilled |
Imperfect
| I | nilled |
| you | nilled |
| he;she;it | nilled |
| we | nilled |
| you | nilled |
| they | nilled |
Pluperfect
| I | had nilled |
| you | had nilled |
| he;she;it | had nilled |
| we | had nilled |
| you | had nilled |
| they | had nilled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would nill |
| you | would nill |
| he;she;it | would nill |
| we | would nill |
| you | would nill |
| they | would nill |
Perfect
| I | would have nilled |
| you | would have nilled |
| he;she;it | would have nilled |
| we | would have nilled |
| you | would have nilled |
| they | would have nilled |
Imperative
| you | nill |
| we | Let's nill |
| you | nill |
Verbs conjugated like 'nill'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'nill'
bill,
dill,
fill,
gill,
hill,
jill,
kill,
lill,
mill,
nil,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English nillen, from Old English nyllan (“to not want”), corresponding to ne + will. Cognate with Old Frisian nelle. Not directly related to Latin nolo, which is an independent construction of the same manner, but the morphemes that compound both verbs are cognates. See: Old English '
nyllan', Latin '
nolo'.
Sample Sentences
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I here auow thee neuer to forſake.
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Ill weares he armes, that nill them vſe for Ladies ſake. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 465:]
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What I nill tell, you aske (quoth ſhe) in vaine,
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Nor mou’d by praier, nor conſtraind by powre[…] [1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 61, page 225:]
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men, whether I will or I nill:[…] [1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Appendix A”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, page 427:]
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Certes (ſayd he) I n’ill thine offred grace,
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Ne to be made ſo happy doe intend[…]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 280:]