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noun

Free will n.

A will free from improper coercion or restraint. "To come thus was I not constrained, but did On my free will."

The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... in Darwinism for free will, or any other sort of will, the Neo-Darwinists held that there is no such thing as self-control. Yet self-control is just the one quality of survival value which Circumstantial Selection must invariably and inevitably develop ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... made a partial preparation in an engagement to meet the justice of the peace who had performed her marriage ceremony. The engagement was conditioned upon his failure to persuade the gypsy to accompany him of her own free will. ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... rain and sunshine, storm and snow, through the terribly cold and gloomy Siberia. Before and behind them rode Cossacks, who would not let them rest as they dragged their chains through the mud and mire of the road. Frequently women and children followed of their own free will to share their husbands' and fathers' fate during their forced labour in the mines. Now there is a great improvement. The labour, indeed, is just as hard, but the journey out is less trying. The unfortunate people are now forwarded in special ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

... insisted. "Did you ever tell her how the thing came to pass? Does she know that the quarrel was forced upon you—that you took heavy odds—that you did not of your own free will avoid the consequences? Does she know that you loved her before you knew who ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

... our own experience. For if we reflect on our past life, is it not a wonder that we thought, desired, did and said that which we were not able to foresee? How far different our course would have been, had we been left to our own free will! Now only do we understand it, and see how constantly God's present care and providence were over us, so that we could neither think nor speak nor will anything except as He gave us leave. As it is said in Wisdom vii, "In His hands are both we and our words"; [Wisd. ...

— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther

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