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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English ne wolde.
Contraction
nolde
- would not
- Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; Book I, Lines 76-77
ffor wel wiste he by sort that Troye sholde/Destroyed ben--ye, wolde who-so nolde- For well knew he by sort that Troy should/Destroyed have been--ye would. Whoso would not?