willful

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WILLFUL, adjective [will and full.] 1. Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; inflexible; as a willful man. 2. Stubborn; refractory; as a willful horse.
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