volition: [17] Volition comes via French volition from medieval Latin volitiō, a noun derived from Latin volō ‘I will’. Together with English will, this went back ultimately to Indo-European *wel-, *wol- ‘be pleasing’, which also produced English volunteer and voluptuous. => voluntary, volunteer, voluptuous, will
volition (n.)
1610s, from French volition (16c.), from Medieval Latin volitionem (nominative volitio) "will, volition," noun of action from Latin stem (as in volo "I wish") of velle "to wish," from PIE root *wel- (2) "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related: Volitional.
例文
1. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition .
メイキンはクムスさんが自発的に投獄したと言った。
2.We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition .
私たちはよく私たちがしていることと考えていることはすべて自分の意志によるものだと思っています。
3.He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
彼は自分が運命に支配されているように感じ、自主的に選択する余地がない。
4.Both sides admit that a volition ，for instance，had occurred.
例えば、双方は意志が現れたことを認めている。dd> 哲学部から
5.There seems no pattern to the attack，no volition to the men.