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- Middle English · inherited fromselfe-willed
- English todayself-willed
From Middle English selfe-willed, selwillyd, equivalent to self- + willed. Compare Middle English onwille, anewil (“selfwilled, stubborn”), from Old English ānwille (literally “one-willed, one's own-willed, self-willed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.