VOLITION


Meaning of VOLITION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vəlɪʃ(ə)n, AM voʊl- ]

1.

Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. ( FORMAL )

We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...

= free will

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you do something of your own volition , you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it. ( FORMAL )

Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.

= voluntarily

PHRASE : PHR after v

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