willfulness
意志性,意志力,任意性,意志
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- : deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- : unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed.
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For Covid-19 vaccination programs to undo distrust in time for the mass drives that will be needed to build herd immunity, what is needed is willful remembering and willful repair.
We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.
In spite of her willfulness and caprices Mrs. Wilmott was full of generous impulses and loyal to her friends.
That willfulness of his had pleased Lady Sellingworth more than anything had pleased her for a very long time.
The poor girl's willfulness the night of the ball had changed Bertha's dislike to hate.
Some are actually ignorant of what constitutes true politeness, and err not from willfulness, but from want of knowledge.
She would not listen to Jean's remonstrance, for all the willfulness in her was aroused and she thought only of her own desire.