Definition of willful

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Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder..

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Wayward :: Wayward (a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
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..
Perverse :: Perverse (a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted..
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..
Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.
Ignorance :: Ignorance (n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
Willsome :: Willsome (a.) Willful; obstinate.
Cool :: Cool (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Wilfulness :: Wilfulness (n.) See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness..
Willful :: Willful (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse..
Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
Derelict :: Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea..
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..
Vandal :: Vandal (n.) Hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature..
Pervicacious :: Pervicacious (a.) Obstinate; willful; refractory.
Contumacious :: Contumacious (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
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..
Stomachic :: Stomachful (a.) Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.
Indulge :: Indulge (v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure..
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