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Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Wilfulness :: Wilfulness (n.) See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness..

Presumptuous :: Presumptuous (a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful..

Vandal :: Vandal (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature..

Scienter :: Scienter (adv.) Knowingly; willfully.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..

Stomachic :: Stomachful (a.) Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.

Willful :: Willful (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Vandalism :: Vandalism (n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments..

Perjury :: Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations..

Pervicacious :: Pervicacious (a.) Obstinate; willful; refractory.

Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.

Derelict :: Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea..

Cruelty :: Cruelty (n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

Perverse :: Perverse (a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted..

Stomach :: Stomach (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..

Wayward :: Wayward (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.

Ignore :: Ignore (v. t.) Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person..

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