volition
noun
the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing.
volitionally
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a word derived from
volition.
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a word derived from
volitional.
volitionaladjectivedone of one’s own will or choosing; deliberately decided or chosen.
Example Sentences
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We volitionally pump it up and think it's the only way to function.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2020
“There is almost nothing you can do to volitionally lower your oxygen saturation,” Dr. Frank Longano, DOC’s deputy medical director, told a DOC investigator after reviewing Johnson’s medical records.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2019
“It even gave, volitionally, what he did not ask for, what he did not even know existed.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018
Sometimes the missing hand feels “locked” in a painfully awkward cramp that can be excruciating, and the patient cannot volitionally move the phantom.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2011
We found that a system with one set of determinants may very likely have other sets of a quite different kind, that, for example, a mechanically determined system may also be teleologically or volitionally determined.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
