wilfulness, willfulness (wilfulnes)

[ Falshede is soo ful of cursidne e that her worship shalle neuere haue enterprise where it Reigneth and hat he the wilfulne e . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 71. Men of busine , absorbed in their object, which calls out daring, energy, resolution, and force, acquire often a wilfulne of temper. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 292. 2. Intention; the character of being done by design. The deliberatene and wilfulne , or as we prefer to call it the intention, which constitutes the crime of murder. Mozley and Whitely. wilily (wi'li-li), adv. [ Josh. ix. 4. wiline (wi'li-nes), n. The state or character of being wily; cunning; guile.