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Wilful

//ˈwɪlfʊl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Intentional; deliberate. UK

    "Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice."

  2. 2
    Stubborn and determined. UK

    "Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her."

Adjective
  1. 1
    habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition wordnet
  2. 2
    done by design wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English wilful; equivalent to will + -ful.

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