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velleity

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8 lettersPronunciation /vɛˈliː.ɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted eeilltvyStarts with VEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. volition in its weakest form

Word origin

From Medieval Latin velleitās, from Latin velle (“wish, will”).

Used in a sentence

  • This connoisseuse of “splendid weaknesses”, run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope.
  • —And so the conversation slips / Among velleities and carefully caught regrets / Through attenuated tones of violins / Mingled with remote cornets / And begins.
  • The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government.

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