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Wills

  [wilz]
–noun
Helen New⋅ing⋅ton  [noo-ing-tuhn, nyoo-] , born 1906, U.S. tennis player.
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will

2  [wil] noun, verb, willed, will⋅ing.
–noun
1. the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will.
2. power of choosing one's own actions: to have a strong or a weak will.
3. the act or process of using or asserting one's choice; volition: My hands are obedient to my will.
4. wish or desire: to submit against one's will.
5. purpose or determination, often hearty or stubborn determination; willfulness: to have the will to succeed.
6. the wish or purpose as carried out, or to be carried out: to work one's will.
7. disposition, whether good or ill, toward another.
8. Law.
a. a legal declaration of a person's wishes as to the disposition of his or her property or estate after death, usually written and signed by the testator and attested by witnesses.
b. the document containing such a declaration.
–verb (used with object)
9. to decide, bring about, or attempt to effect or bring about by an act of the will: He can walk if he wills it.
10. to purpose, determine on, or elect, by an act of will: If he wills success, he can find it.
11. to give or dispose of (property) by a will or testament; bequeath or devise.
12. to influence by exerting will power: She was willed to walk the tightrope by the hypnotist.
–verb (used without object)
13. to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
14. to decide or determine: Others debate, but the king wills.
—Idiom
15. at will,
a. at one's discretion or pleasure; as one desires: to wander at will through the countryside.
b. at one's disposal or command.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME will(e), OE will(a); c. D wil, G Wille, ON vili, Goth wilja; (v.) ME willen, OE willian to wish, desire, deriv. of the n.; akin to will 1

Related forms:
willer, noun

Synonyms:
3. choice. 4. pleasure, disposition, inclination. 5. resolution, decision. Will, volition refer to conscious choice as to action or thought. Will denotes fixed and persistent intent or purpose: Where there's a will there's a way. Volition is the power of forming an intention or the incentive for using the will: to exercise one's volition in making a decision. 9. determine. 11. leave.

Will

  [wil]
–noun
a male given name, form of William.
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will 1   (wĭl)   
n.  

    1. The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action: championed freedom of will against a doctrine of predetermination.

    2. The act of exercising the will.

    3. Diligent purposefulness; determination: an athlete with the will to win.

    4. Self-control; self-discipline: lacked the will to overcome the addiction.

    5. A legal declaration of how a person wishes his or her possessions to be disposed of after death.

    6. A legally executed document containing this declaration.

    1. Diligent purposefulness; determination: an athlete with the will to win.

    2. Self-control; self-discipline: lacked the will to overcome the addiction.

    3. A legal declaration of how a person wishes his or her possessions to be disposed of after death.

    4. A legally executed document containing this declaration.

  3. A desire, purpose, or determination, especially of one in authority: It is the sovereign's will that the prisoner be spared.

  4. Deliberate intention or wish: Let it be known that I took this course of action against my will.

  5. Free discretion; inclination or pleasure: wandered about, guided only by will.

  6. Bearing or attitude toward others; disposition: full of good will.

    1. A legal declaration of how a person wishes his or her possessions to be disposed of after death.

    2. A legally executed document containing this declaration.

v.   willed, will·ing, wills

v.   tr.

  1. To decide on; choose.

  2. To yearn for; desire: "She makes you will your own destruction" (George Bernard Shaw).

  3. To decree, dictate, or order.

  4. To resolve with a forceful will; determine.

  5. To induce or try to induce by sheer force of will: We willed the sun to come out.

  6. To grant in a legal will; bequeath.

v.   intr.

  1. To exercise the will.

  2. To make a choice; choose.


[Middle English, from Old English willa; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Wills   (wĭlz)   
American tennis player who was the dominant woman player in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Word Origin & History

will  (n.)
O.E. will, willa, from P.Gmc. *weljon (cf. O.S. willio, O.N. vili, O.Fris. willa, Du. wil, O.H.G. willio, Ger. wille, Goth. wilja "will"), related to *willan "to wish" (see will (v.)). The meaning "written document expressing a person's wishes about disposition of property after death" is first recorded c.1380.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: will
Function: transitive verb
1 : to order or direct by will <willed that his money be given to charity>
2 : to dispose of by will <willed the house to their children>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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