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单词 volition
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volitionn.

Brit. /vəˈlɪʃn/, U.S. /voʊˈlɪʃən/, /vəˈlɪʃən/
Etymology: < French volition (16th cent., = Spanish volicion, Portuguese volição, Italian volizione), < medieval Latin volitiōn-, volitio (Diefenbach), noun of action < Latin volo I wish, will.
1.
a. With a and plural. An act of willing or resolving; a decision or choice made after due consideration or deliberation; a resolution or determination.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision
resolutiona1475
decreetc1475
decision1490
shall?1553
deliberation1579
resolve1592
pitch1600
volition1615
1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith 35 That such acts againe as they appropriate to the will, and call volitions, are essentially and formally intellections, is most euident.
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xvii. 180 They are onely Velleities and not Volitions: halfe and broken wishes, not whole desires.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 851 They supposing Humane Volitions..to be Mechanically Caused and Necessitated, from those Effluvious Images of Bodies, coming in upon the Willers.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 314 We may have vehement Willings, Longings, Volitions and Velleities.
1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity i. 6 A determination to suspend a volition is, in fact, another volition.
1782 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit (ed. 2) I. p. v Every human volition is subject to certain fixed laws.
1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 9 When the animal has received a sensation, and this sensation determines a volition in it, it is by the nerves that the volition is transmitted to the muscles.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1190 in Poems I Grant me such pardoning grace as can go forth From clean volitions toward a spotted will.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 300 No one can tell how a mere volition moves the arm.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 310 Unless some new volition of a power capable of controlling the universe should supervene.
figurative.1854 R. W. Emerson Poetry & Imag. in Wks. (1906) III. 148 Good poetry..heightens every species of force in nature by giving it a human volition.
b. Used with reference to the will of God.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > will of
willeOE
the voice of God (also heaven, Christ, etc.)c1350
volition1654
complacence1675
1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 145 Gods gracious volitions towards them.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. ii. 27 I doubt all sides are over temerarious in their distribution of Gods Decrees and Volitions.
1700 C. Nesse Antidote against Arminianism 18 We..make..the Volitions of God to come behind the Created and Temporary Volitions of Man.
2.
a. The action of consciously willing or resolving; the making of a definite choice or decision with regard to a course of action; exercise of the will.Very common from c1830.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > [noun] > exercise of the will
willOE
willing1340
volition1660
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. Rule 3 §8 The external act does superadd new obligations beyond those which are consequent to the mere internal volition, though never so perfect and complete.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 58 The Acts of this Faculty are generally divided into Volition, Nolition, and Suspension.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi. 117 This Power the Mind has to prefer the Consideration of any Idea;..the actual preferring one to another, is that we call Volition, or Willing.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 46 By the Motion of my Hand, which was consequent upon my Volition.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 166. ⁋12 That when we find worth faintly shooting in the shades of obscurity, we may let in light and sunshine upon it, and ripen barren volition into efficacy and power.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. iv. 71 I shifted my situation with a speed that seemed too swift for volition.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 157 In this answer the citizen saw something not quite consistent with his own perfect freedom of volition.
1843 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Do not let us suppose that..we are contemplating an affair of mere individual volition.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 37 Human volition is the result of so many obscure and complicated causes, as to appear at first sight mere caprice and chance.
b. The power or faculty of willing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > [noun]
hearteOE
willOE
wilhede1340
volition1738
voluntary faculty1867
the mind > will > free will > [noun]
freedomeOE
free will1340
arbitryc1374
advisementa1398
freedom of will?c1400
liberty?c1400
wilfulnessc1460
liberal arbitre?1483
contingencec1530
indifferencya1555
contingency1561
freedom of thought1591
self-willingness1591
volunt1611
voluntariness1643
uncommandedness1646
autexousy1678
volency1686
inconditionality1696
unconditionalitya1714
indifference1728
volition1738
vacancy1754
voluntarity1794
autonomy1803
unconditionalness1843
unconditionedness1854
1738 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 22/2 The Traveller, as he hath Volition, may will to go to the Right or the Left before he comes to the Guide-Post.
1764 S. Foote Patron ii. 42 To this cabinet volition, or will, has a key.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. viii. 412 The individuality of a mind..or its volition, that is, its power of originating motion.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 247 For Saints, e'en when dead, still retain their volition.
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 46 That sort of angel-beings supposed to have a volition of their own.
1895 G. MacDonald Lilith xx Despair restored my volition,..I ran and overtook her.
c. Will-power.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > [noun] > will-power
willpower1842
volition1844
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. ii. 18 The four votes..had been increased by his intense volition and unsparing means to ten.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. i. ii. 26 Montacute.., acted upon by a stronger volition than his own.

Derivatives

voˈlitionless adj. lacking volition.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > [adjective] > having no will
will-less1651
volitionless1881
1881 J. Owen Evenings with Skeptics II. x. 415 The volitionless will of the former [sc. Schopenhauer] is an instinct with purpose..as the most personal conception of Deity ever evolved from the brain of a theologian.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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