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wilfulness

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Noun1.wilfulnesswilfulness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
fractiousness, unruliness, willfulness
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"


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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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The caprice of the winds, like the wilfulness of men, is fraught with the disastrous consequences of self-indulgence.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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