wilfully

English

Alternative forms

willfully (American)

Etymology

From Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪlfəli/

Adverb

wilfully (comparative more wilfully, superlative most wilfully)

(obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?
Deliberately, on purpose.
Troponym: maliciously

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