volition

Noun

volition (countable and uncountable, plural volitions)

1. A conscious choice or decision.
   • […] And as the Understanding doth at once apprehend it as Good Abſolutely, or in ſome Reſpect, and Evil in other reſpects, and Comparatively a Leſs Good; ſo doth the Will at once continue to Love or Will it ſo farre as it is Apprehended as Good, and to Nill and Reject it as inconſiſtent with a...1655, Richard Baxter, “An Addition to the 11th Chapter of the 3d Part of the Saints Rest”, in Rich: Baxter’s Confesssion^([sic]) of His Faith, Especially Concerning the Interest of Repentance and...
   • [Antonio] Conte has broken the mould further with the suggestion he might escape the [Roman] Abramovich cleaver, becoming the first of his line to leave by his own volition.2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2017
2. The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
   • Out of all the factors that can influence a person’s decision, none can match the power of his or her own volition.
   • The volition may be in accordance with the desire or not; it may be in accordance with the moral feelings, and wholly at variance with the desires; but in both alike the desires and volitions are distinct.1841, Thomas C[ogswell] Upham, “Distinction between Desires and Volitions”, in A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will. Forming the Third Volume of a System of Mental Philosophy, New York...
3. A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.
   • English has not one FOR TO construction but several. These several constructions are interrelated and form a chain, or rather a family, of constructions, with identical or similar components recurring in more or less similar configurations. […] The composition of this family can be represented as...1988, Anna Wierzbicka, “FOR TO versus TO”, in The Semantics of Grammar (Studies in Language Companion Series; 18), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages...