Posted on 10/25/2012 4:25:26 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
velleity \vuh-LEE-i-tee\ , noun
1. Volition in its weakest form.
2. A mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it.
Example sentences:
Fortunately it did no more than stress, the better to mock if you like, an innate velleity.
-- Samuel Beckett, Molloy
My guess is that instead of being men of decision we are in reality men of velleity.
-- Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Have you come across the word velleity? A nice Thomistic ring to it. Volition at its lowest ebb. A small thing, a wish, a tendency. If you're low-willed, you see, you end up living in the shallowest turns and bends of your own preoccupations.
-- Don DeLillo, Underworld
Etymology:
Velleity stems from the Latin word velle which meant "to be willing." The suffix -ity is used for abstract nouns.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
Obama’s recently revealed 20 page “plan for recovery” could be construed as nothing but velleity since it offers nothing new and lots of full page pictures of the O.
mere velleity to repeal obamacare is not enough. Immediate action is necessary!
Obama can claim a Pyrrhic victory with his put down of horses and bayonets, but Romney's yare campaign is working hard to win. Marines were happy to pitch in with irrefragable proof they still use them. Let's hope Romney's enchiridion has a few more plays in it to close the deal.
What a joke that was. He didn’t dare put it out before the debate where Romney could debunk it. Desperation flop sweat is all it is.
In the face of the dire exigencies facing our Beloved Nation, the Kenyan-in-chief marshals nothing but sheer, unalloyed velleity.
Which is matched, in its turn, by Putin and his sur-velleity.
Wow. I heard a bunch of drivel about what he has said off the record as being awesome, so this is a surprise. All good for Romney so far. Who will they endorse?
“Perversion,” known to liberals as “gaiety”
Part of left’s homo-geneity
“We’re all just the same
No questions, no blame”
An agenda more than a velleity
Here’s hoping our arch rival brings only velleity to tonight’s big game. Playing the season finale against the arch rival on TV on Thursday night (only game in town), with a home playoff game on the line, on a day flirting with record high temperatures should make for a very crowded stadium.
The candidate was a man of velleity, to telleity a man of pride swelleity, of courage jellity, himself no selleity, all is good and welleity. Barber Shave.
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The absence of the merest velleity at enforcing the law, or protecting the sanctity of the election polls, is the legacy of this union-backed Racine judge. This is the outrage of the day, IMHO. The very idea that the (now exonerated) perp’s defense that the lady poll watcher was “not used to the language of the community” (swearing and threats at election workers) is unconscionable.
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