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Definition of Headstrong
1. Adjective. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
Similar to: Disobedient
Derivative terms: Wilfulness, Willfulness
Definition of Headstrong
1. a. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
Definition of Headstrong
1. Adjective. Determined to do as one pleases, and not as others want. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headstrong
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstrong
Literary usage of Headstrong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... to be headstrong; far —, to oppose, resist, stem ; darsi su per la —, to come
to b!6ws ... smill head; headstrong, self- willed, obstinate man or woman ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"These other may, but are not : and thence come all those headstrong passions,
violent perturbations of the mind ; and many limes vicious habits, customs, ..."
3. Holland by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1898)
"CHARLES THE Headstrong. PHILIP, misnamed the Good, that crafty, splendid, thrifty
duke, died in 1467, and was succeeded by his son, well named Charles the ..."
4. The Chief American Prose Writers: Selected Prose by Norman Foerster (1916)
"The theme of book vn is "The Third Part of the Reign of Peter the Headstrong —
His Troubles with the British Nation, and the Decline and Fall of the Dutch ..."
5. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"To illustrate the force of this method, the poet adds, that as a headstrong
patient who will not follow at first his ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"A bloody sentence was pronounced, without hesitation, by the rash and headstrong
cruelty of Valentinian. The president of Tripoli, who had presumed to pity ..."
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