wellwillerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wellwiller (複数形 wellwillers)

1. One who firmly intends good; friend.
   • a. 1836, Samuel Johnson, ed. John Walker, Johnson's Dictionary (1836), page 376

     one who means well

   • a. 1899, Salisbury (marquesses of), Calendar of the manuscripts of the ... marquis of Salisbury ... preserved at ..., page 513

     I recommend his case to your favour, the more because I ever found him very affectionate and a zealous wellwiller to the public cause.

   • a. 1908, Catholic Record Society (Great Britain), Publications of the Catholic Record Society, page 395

     One Mr Cooke, then a wellwiller to Catholiques, but afterwards a good Catholique

使用する際の注意点

Usually with "of" or a possessive indicating the object. Used in salutations and closings of correspondence and in dedications of books.

関連する語

• well-wisher

語源

Possibly a calque of Latin benevolēns from bene (“well”) + volēns (“(one) wishing”).

発音

• 韻: -ɪlə(ɹ)

名詞

well-willer (複数形 well-willers)

1. (archaic) One who wishes (someone) well, or means kindly (toward someone).

   Synonyms: friend, good willer, supporter, well-wisher

   Antonyms: enemy, evil willer, ill-willer

   • 1577, Meredith Hanmer (translator), The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London: Thomas Vautroullier, “The Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs,” Book 3, Chapter 1,pp. 296-297,^[1]

     For he determined with him selfe thenceforth to send no embassadour vnto Constantius, neyther to doe homage, or to honor him as his superiour, patrone, or wellwiller: but to deale in all matters accordinge vnto his owne will and pleasure.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:

     […] I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.

   • 1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, The Epistle to the Reader,^[2]

     Thus hoping you will be thus advis’d, and will withal excuse my Errors, I shall ever study how to serve you, and subscribe my self a well-willer to all men.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 20, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815, page 61:

     Every-body and every-thing had a black and a white side, as ill-willers and well-willers were pleased to report.

   • 1891, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain, Chapter 21,^[3]

     As down the wind driveth and thrusts through the sea

     The sail-burg that striveth to turn and go free,

     But the lads at the tiller they hold her in hand,

     And the wind our well-willer drives fierce to the land.