"wilfully" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1581, An Abstract of all the penal Statutes ... Collected by Fardinando Pulton, etc. B.L., England, page 227:",
          "text": "[…]wilfully and comptly commit[…]",
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          "text": "Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?",
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        "(obsolete) Willingly, of one's own free will."
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        "Deliberately, on purpose."
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