- ascription
- be make or break for someone/something idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- choose
- clinch
- conclusion
- flip a coin idiom
- get it together idiom
- get something into your head idiom
- hammer something out
- have a, some, etc. say in something idiom
- judge
- resolution
- sleep
- swing
- swing the balance idiom
- take it into your head to do something idiom
- take the plunge idiom
- tightrope
- tilt
Meaning of volition in English
(Definition of volition from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of volition
volition
She says she finds it useful to divide the mechanics of achievement into two separate dimensions: motivation and volition.
From Slate Magazine
They went of their own volition, and the portraits reflect the control they have over their lives.
From Huffington Post
They're operating on their own volition, a fascinating alternative to our own jointed, head-directed limbs.
From Wired
After that, he may be gone, either because he is pushed out or leaves of his own volition, they say.
From Voice of America
Our growing knowledge about the brain makes notions of volition, culpability, and, ultimately, the very premise of a criminal justice system, deeply suspect.
From Slate Magazine
Everything we do is because a client chose to use us of his own free volition.
From Bloomberg
This is a risk that you do not have the right to take on your own volition.
From CNN
I believe they were there of their own volition.
From CNN
In his mouth, though, these tokens hedge and redirect of their own volition, as if no one is driving the conversational car.
From Slate Magazine
No plane can arrive or depart of its own volition because controllers determine the movement of every aircraft on the ground and in the air.
From The New Yorker
We are assuming they have no volition in their own lives.
From CNN
The police were called to the hotel, and the couple decided to leave on their own volition.
From Huffington Post
He said he didn't ask them why they hadn't come to him on their own volition to discuss the situation.
From USA TODAY
And just so you know, because it may not be what's shared with you, she came up here on her own volition and apologized.
From USA TODAY
They pull at us like tidal currents with questions of volition, of ethical involvement, of ancestry.
From Plain Dealer
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