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Example sentences for "wilfulness"

Lexicographically close words:
wiled; wiles; wilful; wilfull; wilfully; wilie; wiliest; wilily; wiliness; will
  1. From woman's wilfulness all things somehow have their beginning.

  2. Men, for instance, of stoutly independent incomes are prone to the same sort of wilfulness as Bull's, the salve abject submission to it which we behold in his tidal bodies of supporters.

  3. Vulgar rumour reports, that monks and nuns have left their convents on account of their aversion to its tranquil life, and that they might live in carnal freedom, and give vent to their wilfulness and worldly desires.

  4. I call God and my own conscience to witness that no wilfulness or frivolous motive drove me out of the monastery, or excited me to abandon it.

  5. Wild and warlike was his appeal to the princes; he was horrified at what had taken place: the gospel of love had been disgraced by the headstrong wilfulness of those who had called themselves its followers.

  6. Many critics, writing with their eyes fixed on the masterpieces of past literature, have ascribed this tendency to wilfulness and to affectation.

  7. It is the insincerity of persons of their class; but one need not lay stress on the wilfulness of uneducated minds.

  8. He comprehended perfectly this state of wilfulness in an uneducated sensitive man.

  9. I deserve it," said she to herself, "and surely I ought to bear my share of the trouble my wilfulness has occasioned.

  10. O this wilfulness of grief, how hard it was to contend with it!

  11. Uncle Geoffrey, "I am very much vexed with the Bee for her wilfulness about this scheme, but as for the rest, there is hardly a steadier animal than old Dumple, and he is pretty well used to young hands.

  12. Bitterly did he regret the wilfulness which brought him there, well knowing that if he had obeyed orders he would now be free to find his father's body and avenge his death.

  13. It is possible for headstrong wilfulness and secret tenderness to go together.

  14. Yes, De Vaux, I confess my weakness, and the wilfulness of my ambition.

  15. I, 'I once, in the mere wilfulness of despair, rejected the blessings of a home and a friend.

  16. One prophecy of my Cassandra was impressed upon my recollection, by its containing the only severe expression that ever my incorrigible wilfulness could exert from the forbearing spirit of the Christian.

  17. For example, it was through Bluecher's wilfulness that the moral advantage lay with Napoleon in the opening of the struggle.

  18. But the latter was desperate, and with the other generals was displaying a wilfulness bordering on insubordination.

  19. He has the aesthetic sense as thoroughly as Hazlitt and Lamb, but without the wilfulness of either, or at least with a different kind of wilfulness from that of either.

  20. Kitty merely insisted that she could not and would not go without her remaining Tintoret, and the others yielded to her at once, with that indulgent tenderness one shows to the wilfulness of a sick child.

  21. The thought of her long deceit, of the selfish wilfulness wherewith she had requited deep love and easy trust, was too much; it seared his heart.

  22. Otherwise, wilfulness will be the inevitable consequence, a result almost unavoidable with sickly children, by reason of the attention demanded by their sufferings.

  23. At the same time government must increase in firmness, and with many children in severity, until the last traces of that wilfulness vanish, which the former period does not as a rule wholly escape.

  24. Human nature is permitted to have play with unchecked wilfulness in the one, and is allowed no place at all in the other.

  25. The name, however, is so unsuitable to this purpose, that it would be a strange wilfulness in the learned patriarch to substitute it for the language of the author he describes.

  26. Henceforward no more wilfulness and waste, Cuppings, carousings,--these a sponge wiped out.

  27. Against her in the endeavor were the ingrained habits and wilfulness of twenty years.

  28. She was about to add something to snub him, when she recollected that it was her own wilfulness which had precipitated the present situation, and she humbled herself.

  29. And it had all come through her own wilfulness and self-righteousness.

  30. Wilfulness and Wisdom There are people to whom the war was merely the running amuck of a criminal lunatic; and they get what pleasure they can from calling that lunatic all the names they can think of.

  31. But out of this worship of wilfulness there comes, sooner or later, a profound scepticism and discouragement.

  32. Meekness and obedience have taken the place of her wilfulness and pride.

  33. Thus from self-love or wilfulness or vanity they work their own humours and crotchets and fancies into the matter, or overlay it with some self-pleasing quirks of peculiarity.

  34. Thus a strange wilfulness and whimsicality has wrought itself into the substance of his mind.

  35. Yes, I know it, that is undoubtedly one reason for her heedlessness, but it sometimes seems as if her wilfulness increases every day.

  36. In Belle this wilfulness took the form of a willingness to use subterfuge, both in word or deed to gain her own way.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wilfulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.