Autexousious

Quick meaning: Autexousious is an adjective meaning (rare) Of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.

Meaning

(rare) Of, pertaining to, or exercising free will; volitient.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Because it was too focused on hindsight, the 1648 world order failed to forsee major upcoming events which were to threaten this world order and cause an upheaval in the internal arena. These upheavals occurred almost homoplasiously with European states agitating to be autexousious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include volitive, volitional, volitionary, voluntary, volitational, voluntaristic.

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