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- (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall. [from 10th c.]
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall. [from 10th c.]
- (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. [from 14th c.]
- (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference". [from 15th c.]
- (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). [from 9th c.]
- (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation. [from 10th c.]
- (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something). [chiefly 9th–19th c.]
- (now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). [9th–19th c.]
- (archaic) Implying will go.
- [Noun]
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. [from 9th c.]
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. [from 10th c.]
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. [from 9th c.]
- Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
- (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes. [from 14th c.]
- (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. [from 10th c.]
- (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) [from 9th c.]
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