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Willing vs Wilding - What's the difference?

willing | wilding |

As adjectives the difference between willing and wilding

is that willing is ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course while wilding is not tame or cultivated; wild.

As nouns the difference between willing and wilding

is that willing is the execution of a will while wilding is a wild apple or apple-tree.

As verbs the difference between willing and wilding

is that willing is present participle of lang=en while wilding is present participle of lang=en.

willing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Ready to do something that is not (can't be expected as) a matter of course.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

    Synonyms

    * agreeable, agreeing, consenting, voluntary

    Derived terms

    * willing horse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) The execution of a will.

    • Verb

    (head)

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    wilding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wild apple or apple-tree.
  • Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, wild apple, etc.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
    • Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red [...].
  • * Dryden
    • Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
  • * Landor
    • The fruit of the tree is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic) Not tame or cultivated; wild.
    • Wilding flowers. — Tennyson.
    The wilding bee hums merrily by. — Bryant.

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural, philately) Any British stamp with the image of Queen Elizabeth II, based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.