Meaning of Wilfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.

UK, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

““I want⟳ ye all to know⟳,” she said, with a clearing-up snuff, “dat it’s my will an’ pleasure to go right on doin’ my work⟳ jes’ de same; an’, Missis, please⟳, I’ll allers put⟳ three eggs in de crullers, now; an’ I won’t turn⟳ de wash-basin down in de sink⟳, but hang⟳ it jam-up on de nail; an’ I won’t pick⟳ up chips in a milk-pan, ef I’m in ever so big a hurry⟳;—I’ll do eberyting jes’ as ye tells me. Now you try⟳ me an’ see⟳ ef I won’t!” / Candace here alluded to some of the little private wilfulnesses which she had always obstinately cherished as reserved rights, in pursuing domestic matters with her mistress.”

“Now Redworth believed in the soul of Diana. For him it burned, and it was a celestial radiance about her, unquenched by her shifting fortunes, her wilfulnesses and, it might be, errors.”

“If ever I write⟳ again, in the sense⟳ of producing artistic work⟳, there are just two subjects on which and through which I desire to express⟳ myself: one is “Christ as the precursor of the romantic movement in life”: the other is “The artistic life considered in its relation to conduct.” The first is, of course, intensely fascinating, for I see⟳ in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type⟳, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also.”

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