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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
willpower
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It takes a lot of willpower to give up smoking.
▪ Losing weight is largely a matter of willpower.
▪ She made herself get better by sheer willpower, when everyone else had given up hope.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that, it was all willpower and the result was an extraordinary recovery.
▪ He recently kicked a lifetime habit as a chain smoker, a typical example of the famous MacSharry willpower, say observers.
▪ Mind over matter, willpower over reality.
▪ More importantly, once we start nibbling naughty things our willpower slides down a very slippery slope.
▪ She was using willpower on us.
▪ Some children may be submissive to this approach while others fight back and will not have their willpower broken.
▪ The jersey, which was extra small, had shoulder straps that were hanging on by surface tension and willpower.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
willpower

also will power, 1847, from will (n.) + power (n.).

Wiktionary
willpower

alt. The unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes. n. The unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes.

WordNet
willpower

n. the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, self-command, self-will]

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Willpower

Willpower may refer to:

Willpower (Today Is the Day album)

Willpower is the second studio album by the American noise rock band Today Is the Day, released on September 1994 by Amphetamine Reptile Records. The album was recorded just a few months after Steve Austin's father, whom he had not seen for months by this period of time, died in a violent car crash. A remastered edition of the album was issued in 2007 through the then-newly formed SuperNova Records, which included the track "Execution Style", a rare extra from the Willpower sessions that remained previously unreleased up to that point.

A live performance that was recorded during the tour to promote Willpower was released as a DVD via SuperNova, under the title of Willpower Live in 2007.

Willpower (will.i.am album)

willpower (stylized as #willpower) is the fourth studio album by American recording artist and record producer, will.i.am. It was released on April 19, 2013. The album was originally titled Black Einstein and scheduled for release at the end of 2011. It was then renamed #willpower and delayed several more times. The album's first single " This Is Love" features Eva Simons, the second single " Scream & Shout" features Britney Spears, and Justin Bieber is featured on the third single " #thatPower". There is a remix of "Scream & Shout" that features Lil Wayne, Hit-Boy, Diddy and Waka Flocka Flame. Other guest appearances on the album include Afrojack, Juicy J, Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Skylar Grey, Nicole Scherzinger, Korean pop group 2NE1, Baby Kaely and will.i.am's The Black Eyed Peas bandmate apl.de.ap.

The album was re-released on November 26, 2013; the re-release includes the brand new single " Feelin' Myself" featuring Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa, and DJ Mustard, to replace "Let's Go" featuring Chris Brown.

Usage examples of "willpower".

About the willpower the men needed to get through the relentless discomfort and physical pain day after day after day after day, with only four blessed hours of sleep the whole week long.

The two tanks spit billows of exhaust, their squalling engines pushed and pulled but without decision, they were fused as much by force as willpower.

I desperately tried to concentrate enough to reach inside and touch the Wolf spirit in me to boost my reflexes and give me more strength, but the burning pain in my chest and the lightning stabbing through me with each breath denied me the willpower to reach the Old One.

Through sheer willpower and mental discipline, I managed to ignore the surly human and inconsiderate android drivers who clogged the road like horny adolescents, all trying to access the same X-rated Web server at the same time.

Summoning asmuch strength as he could, he tried to crush Malar's wrist by sheer willpower.

No access to multiplicity, no willpower, to be limited to purely spacelike resources, at the mercy of predatory borganisms and metareligions – it's no picnic out there!

She had attacked the machines with characteristic willpower, and between near-daily aerobic exercise and weight training, a sensible diet and breastfeeding, she had slimmed down in a remarkably short time.

His hand was on the other's shoulder, his saber-hand, and he used willpower to prevent it dosing like a mechanical clamp through the Admiral's deltoid muscle.

Erragon, too, was taut as if, by exerting sufficient willpower, he could shift the plum­meting fireball south and east.

It took all her willpower to keep from simply letting herself hang in the grip of the two Zazesspurian city policemen who stood flanking her.

Hall's face was a mask etched from stone, her presence an eye of calm as she forced her bridge crew to hold together by sheer willpower, yet he saw the pain—.

The circumstances you’re in, the nature of the crisis, the strength of your resolve around a particular purpose or vision, the level of your physical, mental, and emotional fatigue, and the amount of sheer willpower you have all affect the level of proactivity you bring to a potentially synergistic experience.

She had taken a bit of this, a bit of that, and a heavy dose of willpower to create protections that were effective in their way, but with all the grace of a pig in a parlor, and all the symmetry of that poor bloke they called "The Elephant Man.

It took all of Ren's presence of mind and willpower to ignore the pain and jump quickly back to his feet, but before he could get free, a gnoll's spiked cudgel slammed into his left hand, goring through flesh and bone and pulverizing the flat of his hand with its impact.

Even so, it took all of Loren's willpower to stifle a cry of sheer terror when what seemed to be a wall of brilliantly - no, putrescently - pink flesh emerged from the sea.