Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Willfulness, especially in satisfying one's own desires or adhering to one's own opinions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One's own will; obstinate or perverse insistence one one's own will or wishes; wilfulness; obstinacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
willful and ignoring opposition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
- noun the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps this tendency toward self-will is the essence of 'original sin' which has infiltrated the human family.
Frank Schaeffer: Religion and Child Abuse Frank Schaeffer 2011
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Perhaps this tendency toward self-will is the essence of 'original sin' which has infiltrated the human family.
Frank Schaeffer: Religion and Child Abuse Frank Schaeffer 2011
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My friends in the Juice Church would say it was self-will run riot.
The Birds (2) Jack Swenson 2011
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Schelling, for example, affirmed evil's reality as a principle of darkness manifesting in the grandiose exaltation of self-will.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Perhaps this tendency toward self-will is the essence of 'original sin' which has infiltrated the human family.
Frank Schaeffer: Religion and Child Abuse Frank Schaeffer 2011
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He was strong, full of self-will, full of the need to succeed, to be different from and better than his peers.
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Schelling, for example, affirmed evil's reality as a principle of darkness manifesting in the grandiose exaltation of self-will.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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Perhaps this tendency toward self-will is the essence of 'original sin' which has infiltrated the human family.
Frank Schaeffer: Religion and Child Abuse Frank Schaeffer 2011
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At the crux of any decision, from the most trivial to the most serious, is the intention to "turn it over" to a Higher Power or stay in self-will.
Darren Littlejohn: Be-ism Or Theism: How To Have A Higher Power As A Buddhist In Recovery 2010
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At the crux of any decision, from the most trivial to the most serious, is the intention to \ "turn it over\" to a Higher Power or stay in self-will.
Darren Littlejohn: Be-ism Or Theism: How To Have A Higher Power As A Buddhist In Recovery 2010
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