wilfully

Speech parts

1. wilfully - Noun

2. wilfully - Adverb

Meaning

Alt. of Wilfulness

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Examples

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. George Bancroft

"Each man kills the things he loves". I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed. Pete Doherty

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. Richard Baxter

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it. Samuel Richardson

Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee That wilfully will neither heare nor see? John Heywood

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. Aleister Crowley

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