Wilfully

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wilful \Wil"ful\, a., Wilfully \Wil"ful*ly\, adv., Wilfulness
  \Wil"ful*ness\, n.
     See {Willful}, {Willfully}, and {Willfulness}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wilfully
       adv : in a willful manner; "she had willfully deceived me" [syn: {willfully}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WILFULLY, intentionally. 
       2. In charging certain offences it is required that they should be 
  stated to be wilfully done. Arch. Cr. Pl. 51, 58; Leach's Cr. L. 556. 
       3. In Pennsylvania it has been decided that the word maliciously was an 
  equivalent for the word wilfully, in an indictment for arson. 5 Whart. R. 
  427.