Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.
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Self-will
Synonyms for "self-will" (33 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- своеволие noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
Esperanto
1 entries- memvolo noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
German
2 entries- Eigensinn noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
- Eigenwille noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ieejensenn noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
Romanian
1 entries- încăpățânare noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
Spanish
1 entries- voluntad propia noun (the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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