Obs. Forms: 1 willice, 2–3 willeliche, 4 williche. [Late OE. willíce = OHG. willîco (MHG. willîche): see WILL sb.1, -LY2. With the quadrisyllabic forms cf. ON. viljanliga.] Willingly, voluntarily.

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c. 1000.  in Anglia, XIII. 375/138. Oþre ʓehwylce ða wyllice we onfengon.

2

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 41. Ȝef ȝe lusten wuleð, and ȝe willeliche hit understonden.

3

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 338. Schrift ouh to beon willes, þet is willeliche iureined and nout idrawen of þe. Ibid., 396. Auh ure Louerd willeliche totweamde his soule urom his bodie vorto ueien ure boðe togederes.

4

a. 1300.  in Horstmann, Altengl. Leg. (1875), 8. Þo dronk Marie al hire fulle Swiþe williche of þat welle.

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