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Meanings of self-will in English
Catalan
força de voluntat The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior.
Catalan
caparrudesa Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
Synonyms
Examples for "obstinacy"
Examples for "obstinacy"
1
There is something awful in the obstinacy of the assaults upon us.
2
The general's patience was gradually vanishing in the face of such obstinacy.
3
That, and a good portion of obstinacy, he thought with a smile.
4
Wherever they passed, there did the fight augment in obstinacy and fury.
5
The girl comprehended without hearing, and shook her head in sullen obstinacy.
1
The natural stubbornness on which he had counted hardened in her face.
2
Don't think I am not aware of the source of your stubbornness.
3
Some call this principle, a kind of stubbornness the hard left admire.
4
I've got a bit of faith in the stubbornness of human nature.
5
But he doesn't say this; he has a stubbornness to match hers.
1
Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?
2
For all his pigheadedness, Toby had a base, savage cunning.
3
Between Nate's pigheadedness and her responsibilities, she hadn't had much play in her life.
4
Gee, labor is unrestful... and gee, the pigheadedness of bosses!
5
I could still recall the words she had used, 'selfishness' and 'pigheadedness' were merely two.
1
Then he thought it up, and we break through his bullheadedness.
2
Do you know what you've done with your bullheadedness?
3
Presson understood better, but could not forgive the bullheadedness that seemed to be wrecking their political plans.
4
The understaffing of the reconstruction and the lack of post-combat planning wasn't the result merely of Donald Rumsfeld's bullheadedness.
5
Other was plain, human bullheadedness.
1
And Jennie's cocky obstinance indicated she was aware of it.
2
Ferrell's Lars is a character whose obstinance makes it hard to root for him.
3
But the urgency outside has only met a wall of politics and obstinance inside the convention centre.
4
Her eyes were glittery with renewed obstinance.
Spanish
determinación Usage of self-will in English
1
It needs much discipline and watchfulness; it excludes all self-will and selfishness.
2
Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.
3
There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will.
4
In this case, the bondage of self-will is found to be absolute.
5
There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
6
Those lines of self-will about the eyes and mouth surely meant something.
7
But we always see too late the consequences of our proud self-will.
8
How often do rashness, precipitation, and self-will accompany our determinations and movements.
9
So perfect was his submission, that he seemed to have no self-will.
10
As He had not, to do it was not faith, but self-will.
11
It is our self-will, our aspirations, our dreams, that must be sacrificed.
12
Do you think you hold a charter of freedom for your self-will?
13
What strange blindness of stubborn self-will to such open evidence of power!
14
How much so-called Christian worship glows with self-will or with partisan zeal!
15
Holy Mother, may I not sin through a vain curiosity or self-will!
16
The value of the death of Christ consisted in the surrender of self-will.
Translations for self-will
Spanish