willingnesse

English

Noun

willingnesse (countable and uncountable, plural willingnesses)

1. Obsolete spelling of willingness.
   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 49:

     […] but it is alſo required for the effeting of the cure, that there bee firſt a willingneſſe in the Patient to be healed of his infirmitie, with a reſolution to vſe the medicines which ſhall be preſcribed;