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Self-will

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition. uncountable

    "This Marian principle indicates that women ought to divest themselves of self-will in order to be obedient to the word of God as articulated by male spokesmen."

  2. 2
    the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior wordnet
  3. 3
    resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.

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