volition
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You could be described as acting freely, as you are satisfying your first- and second-order volitions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
It was more than eight years after his first Indian venture that the cumulus of his experiences, reactions, volitions suddenly crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision.
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Necessitarians represent the connection between motives and acts of Will as being, in all instances, the same in kind as that which exists between volitions and external actions.
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
To the Will, or the active voluntary faculty, are referred all mental determinations, such as purposes, intentions, resolutions, choices and volitions.
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
And this is nothing more than to say that volitions and desires may conflict with each other, which we know to be the fact in numerous instances.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur
Vocabulary lists containing volition
To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Things They Carried
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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