velleity
noun
volition in its weakest form.
velleities
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pluralof velleity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Educators who opposed the velleities of the President's report were slow to speak up; they were afraid they might be misunderstood.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will be in this sequence the consciousness of ideas, that of affirmations, that of irresolutions, that of velleities and that of volitions.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
It started up in corrupt or sordid hearts, and swept all their blind velleities into its purifying flame of passion— "Love is incompatible With falsehood,—purifies, assimilates All other passions to itself."
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
If I did so, I should be indulging in vain velleities, in which my personality, far from realising itself, would on the contrary be disintegrated and scattered.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
It is a world of rejections and velleities; in spite of outward similarities, a strangely different world from that of half a dozen years ago.
From Aspects of Literature by J. Middleton Murry
