"ill-willing" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *il-willynge, ill willand, il-willande, equivalent to ill + willing.",
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      "form": "more ill-willing",
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      "form": "most ill-willing",
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          "ref": "1810, The authoress, by the author of 'Rachel', page 17",
          "text": "I don't know how— but it will make me uneasy, if I am to make up my accounts to you: for so well known is your love to us, that though you would no more do in unjust thing, than, by God's grace, we should desire you; yet this same ill-willing world might think it was like making up accounts to one's self.",
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          "ref": "1857, Thomas of Swarraton, The Noble Traytour, page 332",
          "text": "Some quaint device or rare conceit of her nigh frozen Robin Redbreast; praying to be once more cherished from the cold blasts of an ill-willing world, in the warm bosom of Royal favour.",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Peter Botsman, Chris Burns, Peter J. Hutchings, The Foreign Bodies Papers, page 81",
          "text": "But then neither, obviously, is the simple antithesis of an ill-willing delinquency sufficient, for the machinery that thrives on the good will of individuals easily privatises that into a set of individual aberrations—[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe",
          "text": "As has been illustrated by numerous scientific articles over the last 30 years, there is almost always a possibility for an ill-willing intruder to re-identify (part of) anonymised microdata, […]",
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          "ref": "2016, Morgan Daimler, Fairycraft: Following The Path Of Fairy Witchcraft",
          "text": "Should a person be suffering from the ill-willing attention of one of the fairy people a Fairy Doctor must be found.",
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        {
          "word": "ill willing"
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  "word": "ill-willing"
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          "ref": "1810, The authoress, by the author of 'Rachel', page 17",
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          "ref": "1857, Thomas of Swarraton, The Noble Traytour, page 332",
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          "ref": "1981, Peter Botsman, Chris Burns, Peter J. Hutchings, The Foreign Bodies Papers, page 81",
          "text": "But then neither, obviously, is the simple antithesis of an ill-willing delinquency sufficient, for the machinery that thrives on the good will of individuals easily privatises that into a set of individual aberrations—[…]",
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          "ref": "2001, Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe",
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