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The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
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willfulness
Word definitions for willfulness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness , fractiousness , wilfulness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Willful \Will"ful\, a. [Will + full.] [Written also wilful.] Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder. --Foxe. In willful poverty chose to lead his life. --Chaucer. Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being willful; obstinacy
Usage examples of willfulness.
Emily wanted to stop for mussels and winkles at the shellfish stand, then for lemonade at a nearby cafe, claiming she was hungry and thirsty, and in a burst of willfulness she stamped her foot.
Some night when I am drunk on the blood of many victims, and more accustomed than I am now to confession, I will recount it, my crude and sinister operations, conducted with a sorcerer's willfulness and a boy's blundering, and describe in grim and grotesque detail the writhing jerking catastrophe that rose from beneath my scalpel and my surgical needle and thread.