different between willyer vs willer

English

Etymology

Related to the words woollier and wool.

Noun

willyer (plural willyers)

1. (now rare, obsolete or historical) One who operates a device for willying.

English

Etymology

From Middle English willar, wyller, equivalent to will +? -er.

Noun

willer (plural willers)

1. One who wills; who causes by an act of will or willpower.

   Synonym: desirer

   • 1538, Myles Coverdale (translator), The Newe Testamente both Latine and Englyshe, Romans 9.16,^[1]

     For he sayeth vnto Moses: I wyll haue mercy on whom I haue mercy, and haue compassion on whom I wyl haue compassion. It is not therfore of the wyller, nother of the runner, but of God the shewer of mercy.

   • 1648, Robert Filmer, The Free-holders Grand Inquest, London, 1679, p. 62,^[2]

     […] he that shall act, or cause that Law to be executed, makes himself the Commander, or willer of it, which was originally the Will of others:

   • 1899, William Newton Clarke, Can I Believe in God the Father? New York: Scribner, Lecture 2, p. 84,^[3]

     If the universe shows God to be a great thinker, there is good reason why we should take the next step, and affirm that God is also a great Willer. First of all, we do not know anything about thinkers that are not willers. Thought, so far as we have ken of it at all, is always accompanied by volition.

   • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter 3,^[4]

     What impressed me particularly was the mental and muscular superiority of these two officers. Despite their age—the mate sixty-nine and the second mate at least fifty—their minds and their bodies had acted with the swiftness and accuracy of steel springs. They were potent. They were iron. They were perceivers, willers, and doers.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part II, p. 395,^[5]

     Bridie! Bridie Kelly! He will never forget the name, ever remember the night, first night, the bridenight. They are entwined in nethermost darkness, the willer with the willed, and in an instant (fiat!) light shall flood the world.

2. One who leaves an inheritance by writing a will.

See also

• evil willer
• free-willer
• good willer
• ill-willer
• well-willer

Anagrams

• Irwell