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freewill

free-will \free-will\, freewill \free"will`\, a. Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

Freewill Baptists. See under Baptist.

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freewill

n. (alternative spelling of free will English)

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freewill

adj. done of your own accord; "a freewill offering"

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Freewill (song)

"Freewill" is the second track on progressive rock band Rush's 1980 album Permanent Waves. It is written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with lyrics by Neil Peart. The song's lyrics deal with the subject of free will, emphasizing that free will is not a gift but rather a choice; explaining that Man can attempt to evade the fact that he must choose, but that evasion is itself a choice.

Lee has stated that the end part of "Freewill" is at the highest part of his vocal range.

Usage examples of "freewill".

The more he thought about it, the more he felt as though his personality and his freewill had been violated, raped almost.

The idea that the elaihim could take over the freewill of any human who was close to them and make them dance to their tune like so many puppets was a sorry prospect for his species.

Those who resisted its intrusion found that their freewill was brushed aside like so much insubstantial gauze.

Very briefly he then deals with Determinism and Freewill, the need for the Supernatural and the question of the Fall.

I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

How sweet were the hours when I could lay aside all thought of freewill and of predestination, to lie with my heels in the air among the scented clover, and listen to old Chaucer telling the sweet story of Grisel the patient, or to weep for the chaste Desdemona, and mourn over the untimely end of her gallant spouse.

They rejected the one sent over this year, and although they voted a more liberal supply of their own freewill, the lord-lieutenant would not recognise the newly-claimed right.

I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

And he was like one that slideth down a hill and can arrest his descent with a foot, yet faileth that freewill.

Rhoades was a good Freewill Baptist boy, an' what time he didn't spend in church or with 'is fam'ly 'e spent at work.

There was an egg to symbolize the freewill offering, and water cress for the coming of spring, and the shank of lamb bone to recall the offerings to God in the Great Temple.

Therefore ought the freewill offering of thyself into the hands of God to go before all thy works, if thou wilt attain liberty and grace.