free will
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.57 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "(insane/worst/best/amazing) use of free will"
- "He did not say it of his own free will, but because his captors coerced him."
- "They bound my limbs, depriving me of my free will."
- "I say therefore, there is no likelyhood, we should imagine, the beasts doe the very same things by a naturall inclination and forced genuitie, which we doe of our owne freewil and industrie."
- "Good my Lord, / To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it / On my free-will."
- "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee."