Wilfulness
['wɪlfəlnɪs]
Definition
(n.) See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.
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Examples
- She showed me these letters; with something of the spoiled child's wilfulness, and of the heiress's imperiousness, she _made_ me read them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was the sturdy wilfulness of a man usually most reasonable and self-controlled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You can be, again, a foil to his pretty daughter, a slave to her pleasant wilfulness, and a toy in the house showing the goodness of the family. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But she pushed this notion on one side with the sick wilfulness of a child. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- With the wilfulness of an obstinate child, he wanted to break the holy connection that was between them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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