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free will

/free-wil/US // ˈfriˈwɪl //

自由意志,自由意愿,自由的意志,自由心态

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made or done freely or of one's own accord; voluntary: a freewill contribution to a political fund.
    • : of or relating to the metaphysical doctrine of the freedom of the will: the freewill controversy.

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Examples

  • She had never taken a dose of medicine in her life, and never would, of her own freewill.

  • This ability to switch on or off constitutes our measure of freewill, our power of saying yes or no.

  • They are poor and have to beg, but they receive freewill offerings from the nomads living in the neighbourhood.

  • Besides this, they were required to bring a freewill offering to God, every time they went up to the three great yearly festivals.

  • And he was like one that slideth down a hill and can arrest his descent with a foot, yet faileth that freewill.