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  • adjective Alternative spelling of strong-willed.

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Examples

  • But since i was only 5 when he died, he never got to teach me the ways of the hunt and for that i think i have lost something, but he was also a man of moral and strongwilled and outright stubborn.

    Environmentalists On Hunters 2009

  • But since i was only 5 when he died, he never got to teach me the ways of the hunt and for that i think i have lost something, but he was also a man of moral and strongwilled and outright stubborn.

    Environmentalists On Hunters 2009

  • A strongwilled conservationist, Dingell wondered why the EPA encompassed neither water and sewer programs in the Departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development, nor the environmental operations of the Defense and Transportation Departments.

    Origins of the Environmental Protection Agency 2009

  • Caught in a fire in a vacant Brooklyn building two weeks ago, the strongwilled stray carried her five kittens to safety before collapsing from burns.

    Kitty Badge Of Courage 2008

  • Sam is a wonderful character and Honeysuckle plays her brilliantly: both shy and strongwilled, a bit insecure and yet determined to live life her own way.

    Bits and Bobs (Vol. 7 ½): An email from Honeysuckle Weeks | EW.com 2008

  • She was a stubborn, strongwilled woman, and he wished he were able to express himself better, to make her see the danger.

    Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

  • The column had purged itself, the weak ones had left, the ones who could not take it had quit, and those who were left were the most strongwilled, the stanchest, the firmest, and the hardest.

    CAMAGUEY YOUTH ORGANIZATION 1971

  • She was a strongwilled impulsive young woman, and her deference to Curly flattered him; but he shook his head none the less.

    Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • The feeble king was absolutely ruled by the strongwilled Jezebel, and everything seemed rushing down to ruin.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • But even a strongwilled economist such as Monti will find it near impossible to get the job done unless Italians once again find some common ground as they have done in previous crises, overcoming an ingrained tendency to put local loyalties above national ones.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By VICTOR L. SIMPSON 2011

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