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Definition of Self-willed
1. Adjective. Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition.
Similar to: Disobedient
Derivative terms: Wilfulness, Willfulness
Definition of Self-willed
1. Adjective. Obstinate; strong-minded ¹
2. Adjective. Possessing self-will. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-willed
Literary usage of Self-willed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"... it is that which determines in matters of judgment: a self-willed person thinks
nothing of right or wrong; whatever the impulse of the moment suggests ..."
2. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Elizabeth Melville, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... the Pestilent Nature of the Climate — Impaired Health of even the Acclimatized —
A self-willed Donkey — Phases of the Sierra Leone Landscape — Verdure ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"impetuous and self-willed characters are so liable, all operated towards what
was esteemed her conversion. 'I need scarcely say that this interview was ..."
4. The Round Table: Northcote's Conversations. Characteristics by William Hazlitt (1881)
"His outward form betrays the hard, unimaginative, self-willed understanding of
the sorcerer. No. ..."
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