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volition
English
Etymology
From French volition, from Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose; to want”)) + -ti? (“suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (“suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v??l??(?)n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vo??l??(?)n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: vo?li?tion
Noun
volition (countable and uncountable, plural volitions)
- A conscious choice or decision. [from early 17th c.]
- The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
- (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.
Derived terms
- volitional
- volitionally
Related terms
- voluntarism
- voluntarist
- volunteer
Translations
Further reading
- volition (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- volition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“I wish, I will”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?.li.sj??/
Noun
volition f (plural volitions)
- (philosophy, psychology) volition
See also
- volonté
Further reading
- “volition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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courage
English
Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *cor?ticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k???d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k???d?/, /?k???d?/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
Noun
courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)
- The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
- (Can we date this quote?), Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.9.8
- ...courage is the thing by which they are able to take useful actions while amidst hazards...
- (Can we date this quote?), Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.9.8
- The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- 1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
- 2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:courage
Derived terms
Related terms
- cardiac
Translations
Verb
courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)
- (obsolete) To encourage. [15th-17thc.]
- 1530, William Tyndale, "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue":
- Paul writeth unto Timothy, to instruct him, to teach him, to exhort, to courage him, to stir him up,
- 1530, William Tyndale, "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue":
See also
- fearlessness
- bield
French
Etymology
cœur +? -age or Middle French corage, from Old French corage, from Vulgar Latin *coraticum, from Latin cor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku.?a?/
Noun
courage m (plural courages)
- courage
- Synonym: bravoure
Derived terms
- bon courage
- courageux
- courageusement
- décourager
- décourageant
- découragement
- encourager
- encourageant
- encouragement
- prendre son courage à deux mains
Descendants
- ? Bulgarian: ????? (kuraž)
- ? Macedonian: ????? (kuraž)
- ? Romanian: curaj
- ? Russian: ????? (kuraž)
Interjection
courage !
- chin up! keep going! take heart!
Usage notes
"bon courage !" has a slightly different meaning: "good luck!".
Further reading
- “courage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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