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self-will

self-will noun: the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.

Noun

self-will (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
    • This Marian principle indicates that women ought to divest themselves of self-will in order to be obedient to the word of God as articulated by male spokesmen.2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21

self-will meaning in Tamil and Kannada

self-will in Tamil

தன்மூப்பு, தன்னிச்சை, தன்னெடுப்பு

self-will in Kannada

ಅದಟು, ಆರು

Origin of self-will

From Middle English self-wil, self-wille, from Old English sylfwill, selfwill, selfwille (“self-will”), from Proto-West Germanic *selbawilljō, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô (“self-will”), equivalent to self- + will. Cognate with Old High German selbwillo, selpwillo, Old Norse sjalfvili.

Questions about self-will

What does self-will mean?
Self-will means the quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
What is self-will in Tamil?
Self-will in Tamil is தன்மூப்பு, தன்னிச்சை, தன்னெடுப்பு. See Self-will meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-will?
Self-will is a noun.

Words near self-will in the dictionary

  1. self-views
  2. self-violence
  3. self-waiting table
  4. self-watering
  5. self-weighing
  6. self-will
  7. self-willed
  8. self-willedly
  9. self-willedness
  10. self-winding
  11. self-worship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-will (page history and authors); self-will (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-will (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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