wilfulness BrE
willfullness AmE

I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something.

No, I told myself, it's your bloody wilfulness, like when you were a kid.

Without plan, you have lack of order and wilfulness.

It's all your own wilfulness, as I tell you, for there's nobody no call to break anything if they'll only go the right way to work.

The wilfulness is no longer liked, but is actually obeyed.

This attack of his on the established had seemed to her just so much wilfulness of opinion.

Nay swears, it was no wicked wilfulness, Only a natural chance.

It seemed more like a strategy, a wilfulness.

She'll be seeing again all his wilfulness, what she calls his destructive streak.

On the heels of Mara's sudden wilfulness, this concession came as a total surprise.

In the mere wilfulness, and sick despair of soul!

All the Witted ones laughed indulgently together, as parents would over a child's wilfulness.

I think the best remedy for Thick's wilfulness is to take him home and put him back in his familiar life.

'That's going to be the death of me, wilfulness.

Wilfulness is an element of the offense.

Violations are not considered sins, although wilfulness is considered to be a serious violation of the faith.

Yet in the end his pride and wilfulness overmastered him and he was fey again.

"You disarm me, Gladys," he cried, catching the wilfulness of her mood.

Only her wilfulness had done this.

But his brain ignored the signs with the wilfulness of a confirmed trespasser-or poacher, rather.

But gradually she underwent the sorrowful change which comes to strong natures when they wrong themselves through ignorance or wilfulness.

In his relations with his council, he showed his arbitrariness and wilfulness.

Perhaps this may explain her wilfulness.

We did not call upon press, and pulpit, and university to sanction us in our wilfulness of savagery.

As he says in the Childhood, he had his full share of determined wilfulness to follow his bent.

It admitted that he had carried out the killings, which satisfied willfullness.

To contradict the most pedantic character Shakespeare created seems sheer willfullness.

It was less the artistic design of space as much as the willfullness of the presentation, which Wilderich demanded.

So what if there's some flaking off at inopportune moments, and occasional willfullness, and little, and even big, tantrums.

The jurors had to decide whether Mr. List had killed his family intentionally, with malice, premeditation, deliberation and willfullness.

That is what his painting (the excellent portrait done by Katarina Ivanoviċ) also portrays-masculine beauty, willfullness, energy.

Worrying that his love of theology might lead him to pursue it out of his own willfullness at the cost of obedience he "determined not to request further theological study; he would leave the determination of his future completely in the hands of the Holy Spirit."