wilful
adj/ˈwɪlfʊl/
Etymology
From Middle English wilful; equivalent to will + -ful.
- inherited from wilful
Definitions
Intentional
Intentional; deliberate.
- Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice.
Stubborn and determined.
- Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her.
- Let you not be taking it bad, Conchubor, but you’ll get little good seeing her this night, for with all my talking it’s wilfuler she’s growing these two months or three.
- He was a youth to the end of his days, the heart of a boy with the head of a sage; the heart of a good boy, or a bad boy, but always a wilful boy, and wilfulest to show himself out at every time for just the boy he was.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wilful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wilful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at wilful
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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