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What does wilfully mean?

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Adverb
  1. (obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will.
  2. Deliberately, on purpose; maliciously.
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The government had in fact wilfully stood in the way of families reuniting, and had aggressively prevented parents reuniting with their children.
She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album.
Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
His astonishing debut feature is one of the most wilfully obscure pieces of genre-busting cinema in a very long time.
You don't accept the possibility that a government may one day wilfully misuse this information.
At the end of Henry IV, in a re-enactment of Hamlet's murder of Polonius, Henry wilfully thrusts his sword into Belcredi.

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