Crossword-Solution: VOLITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Volition | n. | The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will. |
| Volition | n. | The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice. |
| Volition | n. | The power of willing or determining; will. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “VOLITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act of willing | 1 answer |
| EXERCISE of the will | 1 answer |
| POWER of willing | 1 answer |
| ability to decide things for oneself | 1 answer |
| the act of making a choice | 1 answer |
| velleity | 14 answers |
| Propensity | 41 answers |
| free will | 51 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| Desire | 70 answers |
| will | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with VOLITION (5)
DIVISION (II) INTERSOCIAL VOLITION[1] [1] Implying the action of the will of one mind over the will of another.
That it had gone of its own volition to bring the balance of the pack to his rescue, Tarzan could not doubt.
That the discredited and hunted lieutenant should be thus returning fearlessly of his own volition, seemed to disarm them quite as effectually as his manner toward Lady Greystoke had deceived her.
Nevertheless, we perfectly well recognize the different mental states of volition implied by “lying,” “sitting,” and “standing,” which are to some extent indicated to a beholder by a slight increase of lustre corresponding to the increase of volition.
But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition.
Quotes with VOLITION (3)
Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not. A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an isolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of…
Truth, says instrumentalism, is what works out, that which does what you expect it to do. The judgment is true when you can "bank" on it and not be disappointed. If, when you predict, or when you follow the lead of your idea or plan, it brings you to the ends sought for in the beginning, your judgment is true. It does not consist in agreement of ideas, or the agreement of ideas with an outside reality; neither is it an eternal something which always is, but it is a name given…
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.