nill
/nɪl/ · nill
verb
- To be unwilling or to decline to do something; to refuse. He nill to accept the invitation, preferring to stay at home.
noun
- A thing of no value or significance; nothing; zero (archaic variant of nil). The score was a nill for both teams at halftime.
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Did you know? The verb nill appears in several of Shakespeare's plays, where characters use it in the sense of ‘I will not’, illustrating its once-common usage in Early Modern English.