wilfully
advUK /ˈwɪlfəli/
Etymology From Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful + -ly.
1
Obsolete Willingly, of one's own free will.
- […]wilfully and comptly commit[…]1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:
- Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Deliberately, on purpose.