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autexousious

autexousious adjective: of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.

Adjective

autexousious (comparative more autexousious, superlative most autexousious)

  1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.
    • Inclinations in all rational beings, vitally united to bodies, and that as autexousious, or free-willed, they should have a power of determining themselves more or less either way.1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, volume 1, The California University Press, published 1820, page 454
    • Moreover, these materials are sufficient, Cudworth holds, for a kind of "animal" obligation. It is possible that the soul may be here defective in the exertions of this autexousious faculty ... in not exerting or continuing sufficient conatus.1995, Stephen Darwall, The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought', The Michigan University Press & The Cambridge University Press, page 144

Examples of autexousious in a sentence

  • Naturally, one would not want to exert certain idolisms on a nation and such imperialisation will be an act of the promotion of an autexousious auturgy.2015 April 30, “The British Empire Party”, in Radley College Chronicle, volume 25, number 0.5, Radley: Radley College, page 5, column 1:
  • These upheavals occurred almost homoplasiously with European states agitating to be autexousious.2022, Everisto Benyera, The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa, Abingdon-on-Thames, England: Routledge, →ISBN:

Forms of autexousious

comparativemore autexousious
superlativemost autexousious

Origin of autexousious

autexousy, from Ancient Greek αὐτεξούσια (autexoúsia) + -ous.

Questions about autexousious

What does autexousious mean?
Autexousious means of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.
How do you use autexousious in a sentence?
Naturally, one would not want to exert certain idolisms on a nation and such imperialisation will be an act of the promotion of an autexousious auturgy.
What part of speech is autexousious?
Autexousious is an adjective.

Words near autexousious in the dictionary

  1. auteurist
  2. auteuristic
  3. auteurists
  4. auteurs
  5. auteurship
  6. autexousious
  7. auth
  8. auth.
  9. Auth. Ver.
  10. authalic
  11. Authbert

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