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willed

adjective C1
  1. Having a document specifying inheritance.
  2. Having a will (of a specified kind).
  3. Brought under the will of another person.
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Marilla would have given much just then to have possessed Anne’s power of putting her feelings into words; but nature and habit had willed it otherwise, and she could only put her arms close about her girl and hold her tenderly to her heart, wishing that she need never let her go.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 289 · C1
Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 247 · B2
He had, when he so willed it, the utter immobility of countenance of a red Indian, and I could not gather from his appearance whether he was satisfied or not with the position of the case.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 83 · B2
He would also be the heir to the money unless it were willed otherwise by the present owner, who can, of course, do what he likes with it.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 54 · C1

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