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English
Etymology
Latin nōlō (“not to will, to be unwilling”), patterned after volition from Latin volō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nəʊˈlɪʃən/, /nəˈlɪʃən/
Noun
nolition (plural nolitions)
- (obsolete) unwillingness.
- Antonym: volition
1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, : Sermon V. Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. , volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. ; and Richard Priestley, , published 1822, →OCLC, page 76:[S]o long as the prayer is fervent, so long the man hath a nolition, and a direct enmity against the lust; he consents not all that while; but when the month is gone, and the prayer is removed, or becomes less active, then the temptation returns, and forages, and prevails, and seizes upon all our unguarded strengths.
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