wilsomeadj.¹

/ˈwɪlsəm/

Forms: Middle English wilsom, wylsom(e, -sum, Middle English–1600s wilsome, wilsum, Middle English wyld-, wel(d)som(e, whylsum, 1500s weilsum, wildsome, wolsome, volsum, (1500s–1600s wilesome), 1800s wullsome, wullsum.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse villusamr.

Etymology: < Old Norse villusamr erroneous, false (Swedish villsam perplexing, embarrassing, in Middle Swedish also, gone astray, Danish vildsom perplexed, intricate), < villr wild, will adv. and adj. + -samr -some suffix¹. Sometimes assimilated in spelling to wild.

Obsolete exc. Scottish.

1. Chiefly of a way or path: Leading astray as through wild and desolate regions; hence, desert, lonely and wild; dreary. (A conventional epithet of Middle English poetry.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]

westeeOE

wildc893

wastyc1230

wastec1290

untilled1297

void1398

wilsomea1400

desolate1413

wastablea1450

unlaboured1474

untilthed1495

spare1508

unmanured1541

unculted1548

uncultured1555

Hyrcan1567

untoiled1578

manureless1595

griggy1597

Wealdish1598

Hyrcanian1600

unwrought1600

wealy1601

uncultived1605

incult1624

unmanaged1634

incultivateda1657

uncultivate1659

uncultivated1684

unreclaimed1753

wildered1810

irreclaimed1814

natural1827

feral1882

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > desolate

wilsomea1400

a1400 Evang. Nicod. 1604 in Herrig Archiv 53 421 Þai wend no wilsom way.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5565 A wilsom wast & a wild.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 689 Mony wylsum way he rode.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxii. 247 Lynet the damoysel that had ryden with hym many wylsome wayes.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 183 in Poems (1981) 10 Throw mony wilsum wayis can scho walk.

a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 245 in Poems (1981) 140 To seke his wyf..our mony wilsum wane, Wyth-outyn gyde.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xi. 26 He..socht onto the wilsum holtis hair.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 9 In the wyldsum way of this daingerous lyfe.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 129 Nor wildsome wood or deserts.

1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 48^v The wilesome woodes were his wished walkes.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 294 We imbraced our wilsome and fastidious Way.

1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 244 He blew, till a' the wullsome waste Rebellowin' echoed round.

2. Erring, wandering, straying; bewildered, perplexed; doubtful, uncertain (of). wilsome of wane = will adv. and adj. Phrases 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]

yblenta1225

amazed?c1225

wory?c1225

mingedc1275

willc1300

distracta1340

confounded1362

confuse1362

distraitc1374

whapedc1374

wilsomea1375

poseletc1390

distraught1393

perplexa1425

wildc1440

wiltc1440

dodemusydc1450

mistedc1450

unclearc1475

mazed1493

perplexeda1500

traversablea1500

mazyc1525

entangled1561

muddy?1571

distraughted1572

moidered1587

wondering1592

puzzled1598

plundered1601

distracted1604

uncollected1613

wildered1642

turbid1647

tosticated1650

fuddled1656

pixie-led1659

puzzling1692

bumbazed1720

maffled1820

obfuscated1822

confused1825

muddly1829

mystified1833

maze1842

obfusticatedc1844

head-scratching1849

clueless1862

flustery1862

befogged1868

deurmekaar1871

mosy1887

skewgee1890

buggered-up1893

confusticated1898

smock-ravelled1904

messed-up1913

screwed-up1943

hung up1945

lost1967

gravelled-

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > straying or going astray

willa1325

wilsomea1375

errant14..

miswandering?a1425

straying1553

straggling1589

extravagant1604

wandering1606

roytish1648

erroneous1731

wildering1827

stray-running1914

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5394 Þus was þe kowherd out of kare kindeli holpen, he & his wilsum wif wel to liuen for euer.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 95 Hym self in þe mene tyme ful wilsom [L. naviter oberrans] at þe Ile of Wight halowede Cristemasse.

a1440 Sir Eglam. 867 They namyd the chylde syr Degrabelle, That welsome was of wone [read wane].

c1440 York Myst. xxvii. 92 So wilsom wightis as we, Was neuere in worlde walkand in wede.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsome, or dowtefulle, dubius, fluctuans.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvii. 361 Wilsom of hart ye ar, vnabyll, And outt of the right way.

a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 268 The hungry, meit, the thristy drink I gaif,..Herbreit the wilsum, nor nakit cled at all.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iii. 105 Wncertanlie we went Thre dais wilsum throu the mysty streme.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 43 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 Wa Is me wretche in yis warld,wilsome of wane.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 44 Werie forwrocht, and richt weilsum of wane.

1554 J. Knox Let. in Answer Iesuit Tyrie (1572) sig. Fiv^v God shall guyde the footesteppes of him that is wilsome.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44^v Wilsum of ane gude reid.

c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 35 Vandring as ane volsum vagabound.

1614 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. L 2 If it had not been for a Christian Amaronite, who accidently encountred with vs, in our wilsum [1632, 190 wilesome] wandring, wee had beene miserably lost.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wilsum, in a wandering state, implying the ideas of dreariness, and of ignorance of one's course, S. pron. wullsum.

Derivatives

ˈwilsomely adv.¹ erringly, perversely; wanderingly, at random.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner

wilsomelyc1420

erroneously1528

vagrantly1547

gaddingly1552

wanderingly1552

roamingly1621

rovingly1664

excursively1791

ramblingly1855

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adverb]

wrongc1175

miss?c1225

untruea1350

untrulyc1380

falselya1400

wilsomelyc1420

awrong1430

unpurelyc1460

fallibly1552

erroneously1578

sinistrously1581

wrongously1597

false1598

unproperly1604

incorrectly1611

fallaciously1612

mistakingly1652

foul1683

wrongfully1743

wrongly1755

erringly1815

c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xxxv To somun alle tho, That wilsumly ar wente me fro.

c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 17 As y wandered weldsomly in-to þe lawnd þat was so grene.

ˈwilsomeness n.¹ error, perverseness; doubt, uncertainty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun]

studyinglOE

orrathnessc1175

doubta1225

balance1297

were1303

doubtancec1325

unsickernessc1340

wilsomenessa1400

wonda1400

scriple?a1425

ambiguityc1425

diswerec1440

dubitationc1450

variation?1473

incertainty1483

doubting1486

doubtfulness1526

scrupulousness1526

scruple1548

uncertainty1548

disputation1549

irresolution1592

swithering1597

hesitance1601

incertitude1601

unpersuadedness1612

inassurance1614

hesitancy1617

unsettledness1619

hesitation1622

unsatisfaction1643

unsatisfiedness1646

dubitancy1649

insecurity1649

dispersuasion1653

unassuredness1660

scrupling1665

unconfidencea1670

swither1719

dubietyc1750

mank1808

suspense1816

dubitating1837

doubtingness1840

society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray

misgangc1330

misfarea1387

misgoinga1387

wilsomenessa1400

misfootinga1456

swerving1545

by-walking1549

warping1608

degression1618

deviation1625

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > being astray, error

woughc888

dwalec950

dwildOE

wharfedlaikc1175

dwele?c1225

dwelth?c1225

misfarea1387

wilsomenessa1400

mistake1635

fallacy1645

solecism1649

mistakenness1865

a1400 Evang. Nicod. 1365 in Herrig Archiv 53 417 Fro wayes of wilsomnes..he has þam taken.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsomenesse, or dowtefulnesse.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wilsomewillsomeadj.²

Etymology: ? originally a use of wilsome adj.¹, later associated with will n.¹ There appears to be no connection with Old English wilsum, wilsumlic ‘desiderabilis’, ‘voluntarius’, ‘devotus’, wilsumlíce ‘sponte’, ‘voluntarie’.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

Wilful, obstinate, stubborn.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > wilful

onwileOE

wilfulc1200

willesfulc1225

headstronga1398

wilsomea1400

headya1425

overthrowing?a1425

self-willya1425

self-willedc1450

sensual1524

wayward1528

headish1530

affectionate1534

self-will1562

strongheaded1579

hard-mouthed1610

brag-brained1648

self-wilful1648

overwilled1650

will-strong1654

cobby1785

willyart1791

brain-strong1863

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 9633 It was his aun wilsum [Vesp. wilful] sinne, þat did vs all fra him to tuynne.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsome, or folwynge only hys owne wylle, effrenus.

1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 3 He was wide and wildsome in the brest.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Wilsome, obstinate; stubborn. A forgotten old word, but as proper as humoursome, and the like.

1826 H. Smith Tor Hill I. 26 Within stone walls he is ever willsome and upon the fret.

a1835 Hogg Poems, Spirit of the Glen xxvii Marjorie smiled a willsome smile.

Derivatives

ˈwilsomely adv.² wilfully.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > wilfully

yernec888

wilfulc1381

for wilnesfulc1400

willesfullyc1400

selfwilledly1530

wilfullya1586

wilsomelya1835

a1835 J. Hogg Connel of Dee in Poems xvi His sins were like crimson—all bent and uneven, The path he hed wilesomely trod.

ˈwilsomeness n.² wilfulness, frowardness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > wilfulness

willOE

wilfulnessc1200

wilfulshipc1200

own-willa1225

wilsomenessa1382

wilfulheadc1385

headiness1447

self-willa1450

self-willednessc1450

willerdoma1475

wilfulheadness1485

self-wilfulness1511

sensuality1536

headstrongness1598

self-williness1611

prodigity1623

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxi. 40 The wilsumnesse [L. animositas] of drunkenhed.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsomenesse, or froward wylle, effrenitas, vel proprie voluntatis sequela.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	wilsome
释义	wilsomeadj.¹ /ˈwɪlsəm/ Forms: Middle English wilsom, wylsom(e, -sum, Middle English–1600s wilsome, wilsum, Middle English wyld-, wel(d)som(e, whylsum, 1500s weilsum, wildsome, wolsome, volsum, (1500s–1600s wilesome), 1800s wullsome, wullsum. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse villusamr. Etymology: < Old Norse villusamr erroneous, false (Swedish villsam perplexing, embarrassing, in Middle Swedish also, gone astray, Danish vildsom perplexed, intricate), < villr wild, will adv. and adj. + -samr -some suffix¹. Sometimes assimilated in spelling to wild. Obsolete exc. Scottish. 1. Chiefly of a way or path: Leading astray as through wild and desolate regions; hence, desert, lonely and wild; dreary. (A conventional epithet of Middle English poetry.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] westeeOE wildc893 wastyc1230 wastec1290 untilled1297 void1398 wilsomea1400 desolate1413 wastablea1450 unlaboured1474 untilthed1495 spare1508 unmanured1541 unculted1548 uncultured1555 Hyrcan1567 untoiled1578 manureless1595 griggy1597 Wealdish1598 Hyrcanian1600 unwrought1600 wealy1601 uncultived1605 incult1624 unmanaged1634 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 uncultivated1684 unreclaimed1753 wildered1810 irreclaimed1814 natural1827 feral1882 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > desolate wilsomea1400 a1400 Evang. Nicod. 1604 in Herrig Archiv 53 421 Þai wend no wilsom way. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5565 A wilsom wast & a wild. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 689 Mony wylsum way he rode. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxii. 247 Lynet the damoysel that had ryden with hym many wylsome wayes. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 183 in Poems (1981) 10 Throw mony wilsum wayis can scho walk. a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 245 in Poems (1981) 140 To seke his wyf..our mony wilsum wane, Wyth-outyn gyde. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xi. 26 He..socht onto the wilsum holtis hair. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 9 In the wyldsum way of this daingerous lyfe. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 129 Nor wildsome wood or deserts. 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 48^v The wilesome woodes were his wished walkes. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 294 We imbraced our wilsome and fastidious Way. 1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 244 He blew, till a' the wullsome waste Rebellowin' echoed round. 2. Erring, wandering, straying; bewildered, perplexed; doubtful, uncertain (of). wilsome of wane = will adv. and adj. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective] yblenta1225 amazed?c1225 wory?c1225 mingedc1275 willc1300 distracta1340 confounded1362 confuse1362 distraitc1374 whapedc1374 wilsomea1375 poseletc1390 distraught1393 perplexa1425 wildc1440 wiltc1440 dodemusydc1450 mistedc1450 unclearc1475 mazed1493 perplexeda1500 traversablea1500 mazyc1525 entangled1561 muddy?1571 distraughted1572 moidered1587 wondering1592 puzzled1598 plundered1601 distracted1604 uncollected1613 wildered1642 turbid1647 tosticated1650 fuddled1656 pixie-led1659 puzzling1692 bumbazed1720 maffled1820 obfuscated1822 confused1825 muddly1829 mystified1833 maze1842 obfusticatedc1844 head-scratching1849 clueless1862 flustery1862 befogged1868 deurmekaar1871 mosy1887 skewgee1890 buggered-up1893 confusticated1898 smock-ravelled1904 messed-up1913 screwed-up1943 hung up1945 lost1967 gravelled- society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > straying or going astray willa1325 wilsomea1375 errant14.. miswandering?a1425 straying1553 straggling1589 extravagant1604 wandering1606 roytish1648 erroneous1731 wildering1827 stray-running1914 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5394 Þus was þe kowherd out of kare kindeli holpen, he & his wilsum wif wel to liuen for euer. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 95 Hym self in þe mene tyme ful wilsom [L. naviter oberrans] at þe Ile of Wight halowede Cristemasse. a1440 Sir Eglam. 867 They namyd the chylde syr Degrabelle, That welsome was of wone [read wane]. c1440 York Myst. xxvii. 92 So wilsom wightis as we, Was neuere in worlde walkand in wede. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsome, or dowtefulle, dubius, fluctuans. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvii. 361 Wilsom of hart ye ar, vnabyll, And outt of the right way. a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 268 The hungry, meit, the thristy drink I gaif,..Herbreit the wilsum, nor nakit cled at all. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iii. 105 Wncertanlie we went Thre dais wilsum throu the mysty streme. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 43 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 Wa Is me wretche in yis warld,wilsome of wane. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 44 Werie forwrocht, and richt weilsum of wane. 1554 J. Knox Let. in Answer Iesuit Tyrie (1572) sig. Fiv^v God shall guyde the footesteppes of him that is wilsome. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 44^v Wilsum of ane gude reid. c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 35 Vandring as ane volsum vagabound. 1614 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. L 2 If it had not been for a Christian Amaronite, who accidently encountred with vs, in our wilsum [1632, 190 wilesome] wandring, wee had beene miserably lost. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wilsum, in a wandering state, implying the ideas of dreariness, and of ignorance of one's course, S. pron. wullsum. Derivatives ˈwilsomely adv.¹ erringly, perversely; wanderingly, at random. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner wilsomelyc1420 erroneously1528 vagrantly1547 gaddingly1552 wanderingly1552 roamingly1621 rovingly1664 excursively1791 ramblingly1855 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adverb] wrongc1175 miss?c1225 untruea1350 untrulyc1380 falselya1400 wilsomelyc1420 awrong1430 unpurelyc1460 fallibly1552 erroneously1578 sinistrously1581 wrongously1597 false1598 unproperly1604 incorrectly1611 fallaciously1612 mistakingly1652 foul1683 wrongfully1743 wrongly1755 erringly1815 c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) xxxv To somun alle tho, That wilsumly ar wente me fro. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 17 As y wandered weldsomly in-to þe lawnd þat was so grene. ˈwilsomeness n.¹ error, perverseness; doubt, uncertainty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] studyinglOE orrathnessc1175 doubta1225 balance1297 were1303 doubtancec1325 unsickernessc1340 wilsomenessa1400 wonda1400 scriple?a1425 ambiguityc1425 diswerec1440 dubitationc1450 variation?1473 incertainty1483 doubting1486 doubtfulness1526 scrupulousness1526 scruple1548 uncertainty1548 disputation1549 irresolution1592 swithering1597 hesitance1601 incertitude1601 unpersuadedness1612 inassurance1614 hesitancy1617 unsettledness1619 hesitation1622 unsatisfaction1643 unsatisfiedness1646 dubitancy1649 insecurity1649 dispersuasion1653 unassuredness1660 scrupling1665 unconfidencea1670 swither1719 dubietyc1750 mank1808 suspense1816 dubitating1837 doubtingness1840 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray misgangc1330 misfarea1387 misgoinga1387 wilsomenessa1400 misfootinga1456 swerving1545 by-walking1549 warping1608 degression1618 deviation1625 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > being astray, error woughc888 dwalec950 dwildOE wharfedlaikc1175 dwele?c1225 dwelth?c1225 misfarea1387 wilsomenessa1400 mistake1635 fallacy1645 solecism1649 mistakenness1865 a1400 Evang. Nicod. 1365 in Herrig Archiv 53 417 Fro wayes of wilsomnes..he has þam taken. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsomenesse, or dowtefulnesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wilsomewillsomeadj.² Etymology: ? originally a use of wilsome adj.¹, later associated with will n.¹ There appears to be no connection with Old English wilsum, wilsumlic ‘desiderabilis’, ‘voluntarius’, ‘devotus’, wilsumlíce ‘sponte’, ‘voluntarie’. Obsolete exc. dialect. Wilful, obstinate, stubborn. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > wilful onwileOE wilfulc1200 willesfulc1225 headstronga1398 wilsomea1400 headya1425 overthrowing?a1425 self-willya1425 self-willedc1450 sensual1524 wayward1528 headish1530 affectionate1534 self-will1562 strongheaded1579 hard-mouthed1610 brag-brained1648 self-wilful1648 overwilled1650 will-strong1654 cobby1785 willyart1791 brain-strong1863 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 9633 It was his aun wilsum [Vesp. wilful] sinne, þat did vs all fra him to tuynne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsome, or folwynge only hys owne wylle, effrenus. 1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 3 He was wide and wildsome in the brest. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Wilsome, obstinate; stubborn. A forgotten old word, but as proper as humoursome, and the like. 1826 H. Smith Tor Hill I. 26 Within stone walls he is ever willsome and upon the fret. a1835 Hogg Poems, Spirit of the Glen xxvii Marjorie smiled a willsome smile. Derivatives ˈwilsomely adv.² wilfully. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > wilfully yernec888 wilfulc1381 for wilnesfulc1400 willesfullyc1400 selfwilledly1530 wilfullya1586 wilsomelya1835 a1835 J. Hogg Connel of Dee in Poems xvi His sins were like crimson—all bent and uneven, The path he hed wilesomely trod. ˈwilsomeness n.² wilfulness, frowardness. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > wilfulness willOE wilfulnessc1200 wilfulshipc1200 own-willa1225 wilsomenessa1382 wilfulheadc1385 headiness1447 self-willa1450 self-willednessc1450 willerdoma1475 wilfulheadness1485 self-wilfulness1511 sensuality1536 headstrongness1598 self-williness1611 prodigity1623 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxi. 40 The wilsumnesse [L. animositas] of drunkenhed. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 528/2 Wylsomenesse, or froward wylle, effrenitas, vel proprie voluntatis sequela. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.¹a1375adj.²a1382
随便看	to take the initiative to take the king'queen's shilling to take the king's shilling to take the knee to take the knock to take the law into one's own fists to take the law into one's own hands to take the lead to take the liberty to take the liberty of to take the liberty of doing something to take the liberty to do something to take the life fro to take the life of to take the likeness to take the little veil to take the long view to take the manner to to take the manners to to take the mantle and the ring to take the mate to take the measure to take the measure of to take the measures to take the met of a person's foot

wilsomeadj.1

Derivatives

wilsomewillsomeadj.2

Derivatives

wilsomeadj.¹

wilsomewillsomeadj.²