Today's Word "Volition"
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volition \voh-LIH-shun\ (noun) - An act of making a choice or decision; also : a choice or decision made 2 : the power of choosing or determining : will
"While many assumed that Frank had been forced out by the company buy-out he always insisted that he left of his own volition."
From the Latin verb "velle," meaning "to will" or "to wish." English speakers borrowed the term from French in the 17th century, using it at first to mean "an act of choosing." Its earliest known English use appeared in Thomas Jackson's 1615 Commentaries upon the Apostle's Creed: "That such acts, again, as they appropriate to the will, and call volitions, are essentially and formally intellections, is most evident." The second sense of "volition," meaning "the power to choose," had developed by the mid-18th century.
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