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Willing

adjective

Disposed or inclined toward. "Willing helpers"

Not brought about by coercion or force. Synonyms: uncoerced, unforced.

noun

The act of making a choice. Synonym: volition.

Will

verb

(past & past part. willed; pres. part. willing)

Decree or ordain.

Determine by choice.

Leave or give by will after one's death. Synonyms: bequeath, leave. "My grandfather left me his entire estate"

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... cauliflower ear. Yet was he a man of worth and a good citizen, and Ann had liked him from their first meeting. As for Jerry, he worshipped Ann and would have done anything she asked him. Ever since he had discovered that Ann was willing to listen to and sympathise with his outpourings on the subject of his troubled wooing, he had ...

— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... control), and that all the goods in the cellar at the time of the quarrel were only of the value of ten shillings, to which he was entitled, as Quarriar still owed him thirty-three shillings. Moreover, he was willing to repeat in Quarriar's presence the lies the latter had tried to persuade him to tell. As to the children, he ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... rituals and ceremonies attracts the passive who are willing to let the priest or pastor or prelate take charge of the religious work while they, the attendants or worshippers, sit quietly by and say amen and ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... the language." Chapman, a most spirited translator of Homer, probably had no very critical skill in Greek; and Hobbes was, beyond all question, as poor a Grecian as he was a doggerel translator; yet in this letter Pope professes his willing submission to the "authority" of Chapman and Hobbes, as ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... up, and boiling like an old Roman's; so he was determined to show Cursecowl that I had a friend in court, able and willing to keep him at stave's-end. "Keep a calm sough," said James Batter, interfering, "and not miscall the head of the house in his own shop; or, to say nothing of present consequences, by way of showing ye the road to the door, ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

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