adj. (ptcpl.) I. of good will, benevolent, benignant, kind:--Welwillende beniuolus, Ælfc. Gr. 14; Zup. 87, 17. Ic ðé hálsie, ðú árfæsta, welwilende and welwyrcende Dryhten, Shrn. 169, 19. Swá him gewissode se welwillenda God, Jud. 6, 14: Homl. Ass. 55, 122. Se wellwillenda bisceop Æðelwold (cf. Adelwoldus benevolus et venerabilis presul, Homl. Th. i. 1, 3), Chr. 984; Erl. 130, 1. Se wellwillenda man wyle eáðe forberan gif hine man áhwǽr týnð, Basil admn. 4; Norm. 44, 17. Hé hit þearfum dǽlde mid wellwillendum móde, Homl. Skt. ii. 26, 59. Tó ðam welwillendan Hǽlende, Homl. Th. ii. 230, 11: Homl. Ass. 80, 186: 101, 329. Wynsum ús byð ðæt wé welwyllende beón, 10, 267. Gebyreþ ðætte sume, ða ðe welwillende beóð, on monegum weorcum unfæste beóð ongietene contigit, ut quidam cum cordis innocentia in nonnullis suis actibus infirmi videantur, Past. 34; Swt. 235, 17. Ða welwillendan benevoli, Swt. 229, 10. II. of right will, right-minded:--Ðá Dauid ðysne sealm sancg, ðá gealp hé and fægnode Godes fultumes wið his feóndum; and swá déð ǽlc welwillende man, ðe ðisne sealm singð, Ps. Th. 4, arg. [Þ dol, þet God ȝefþ to his welwilynde . . . þet is to alle guode herten, Ayenb. 112, 11. Welewyllynge or of god wylle, welwyllyd benevolus, Prompt. Par