wilfully
/ˈwɪlfəli/ adverb C2- Deliberately, on purpose.
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Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all.
“And yours,” he replied, with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is, that she is deceived herself.”
Wilfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth, the acknowledged favourite of my father, a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage, and who had been brought up to expect its exertion, would be a depravity, to which the separation of two young persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks, could bear no comparison.
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