wilfully
English
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editFrom Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful + -ly.
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editwilfully (comparative more wilfully, superlative most wilfully)
- (obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?
- Deliberately, on purpose.
- Troponym: maliciously