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Wilfulness along with waywardness is certainly not quite the same thing as “power of will,” but it testifies to a will which can exert itself steadily if it likes.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Wilfulness was never nurse to virtue, but rather her foe; nor ever did a rebellious spirit prove the herald of true greatness.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Wilfulness and triviality played over the surface of a nature hard as steel, a temper purely intellectual, the very type of reason untouched by imagination or passion.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard

He is neither Free Will, nor Wilfulness, nor Inclination, but the quality which metaphysicians and theologians agree in describing as 'the Will.'

From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony

Wilfulness characterizes the childish nature and passion the savage nature.

From The Ascent of the Soul by Bradford, Amory H.