volitionally en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /vəˈlɪʃənəli/
- /vəˈlɪʃnəli/
- /vəˈlɪʃənli/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition English -al English volitional Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English volitionally From volitional + -ly.
Meanings
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(formal, not-comparable) Willingly or decidedly; in a volitional or willed way.
Must a person endorse, be satisfied with, or at least fail to feel alienated from what is volitionally necessary and what is inescapable if these are to be included within her self-conception?
2005, John Christman, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, page 86:If, on the other hand, the external impression be also felt, then the mind, according to its psychological laws, connects volitionally with it many other conceptions, the internal impressions of which can produce through the motor nerves such sentient actions as the unfelt external impression could not have developed at all, or, at least, not in combination with the will of the animal.
1851, Johann August Unzer, The Principles of physiology, page 201:The people in all of these examples use attention volitionally
1998, Richard B. Ivry, The Two Sides of Perception, page 123:
Relateds
nonvolitionally · prevolitionally · postvolitionally
Translations (1)
es volicionalmente (willingly or decidedly; in a volitional or willed way)