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wilfulness

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Noun1.wilfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of disciplinewilfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
intractability, intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control
contrariness, perverseness, perversity - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
wildness - an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention"
Translations
wilfulness willfulness (US) [ˈwɪlfʊlnɪs] N
1. (= obstinacy) → testarudez f, terquedad f
2. (= premeditation) → lo intencionado, lo premeditado
wilfulness [ˈwɪlfʊlnɪs] n (= stubbornness) → obstination f
wilfulness, (US) willfulness
n
(of person)Eigensinn m, → Eigenwilligkeit f
(of action)Mutwilligkeit f, → Vorsätzlichkeit f
wilfulness [ˈwɪlfʊlnɪs] ntestardaggine f


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There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
The caprice of the winds, like the wilfulness of men, is fraught with the disastrous consequences of self-indulgence.
There are men whom a merciful Providence has undoubtedly ordained to a single life, but who from wilfulness or through circumstances they could not cope with have flown in the face of its decrees.
 
 
 
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