Crossword-Solution: VELLEITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Velleity | n. | The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “VELLEITY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| LOW degree of volition not prompting to action | 1 answer |
| SLIGHT wish | 1 answer |
| WISH or inclination | 1 answer |
| volition in its weakest form | 1 answer |
| weakest level of desire or volition | 1 answer |
| A MERE WISH, UNACCOMPANIED BY EFFORT TO OBTAIN | 11 answers |
| Volition | 14 answers |
| Determi-nation | 62 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| will | 87 answers |
| Inclination | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with VELLEITY (5)
And the warrior king, who, like single-minded fathers in general, was ever in the idea that his son had a velleity for deriding and otherwise vexing him, began a severe course of reproof.
Whether I have hit upon the true explanation, or whether the cause lie not rather in a besetting velleity of the picturesque and vivid, I shall leave the reader to judge by an example or two.
Skill, endurance, and perseverance may almost be called muscular virtues; and fatigue, velleity, caprice, _ennui_, restlessness, lack of control and poise, muscular faults.
This theory and the subtleties derived from it, far from characterizing art, represent its contrary: the impotent velleity for art, which cannot slay abstractions and come in contact with life.
Yet we have a certain power also over our will, because we can contribute indirectly towards willing another time that which we would fain will now, as I have here already shown: that, however, is no _velleity_, properly speaking.