Will Roget’s Thesaurus §600 N. will,
volition,
conation,
velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure,
free will, freedom,
discretion,
option,
voluntariness,
spontaneity,
spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol &c. determination, force of will
V. will, list, see fit, think fit, determine,
enjoin, settle,
volunteer, have a will of one's own, do what one chooses, have it all one's own way, have one's will, have one's own way, use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion, take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands, do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority,
originate Adj. voluntary,
volitional,
willful, free,
optional,
discretional,
discretionary,
volitient,
volitive, minded,
prepense, intended,
autocratic, unbidden &c. (bid ),
spontaneous, original,
unconstrained Adv. voluntarily, at will, at pleasure, a volonte, a discretion, al piacere,
ad libitum, ad arbitrium, as one thinks proper, as it seems good to, a beneplacito, of one's won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's own head, by choice, purposely,
deliberately Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden
N. obstinateness,
obstinacy,
tenacity, cussedness,
perseverance,
immovability, old school,
inflexibility,
obduracy,
obduration, dogged resolution, resolution, ruling passion, blind side,
self-will,
contumacy,
perversity, pervicacy|,
pervicacity,
indocility,
bigotry,
intolerance,
dogmatism, opiniatry|,
opiniativeness, fixed idea,
fanaticism,
zealotry,
infatuation,
monomania, opinionatedness opinionativeness,
mule, opinionist|,
opinionatist, opiniator|, opinator|,
stickler,
dogmatist,
bigot,
zealot,
enthusiast,
fanatic V. be obstinate,
stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of facts,
opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief, have one's own way,
persist, have the last word, insist on having the last word, die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out
Adj. obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened, inflexible,
balky, immovable,
unshakable, not to be moved,
inert, unchangeable,
inexorable,
mulish, obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed,
dogged,
sullen,
sulky, unmoved, uninfluenced, unaffected,
willful,
self-willed,
perverse,
resty, restive, restiff|,
pervicacious,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly,
heady,
headstrong, entete,
contumacious,
crossgrained, arbitrary, dogmatic, positive,
bigoted,
prejudiced, creed- bound, prepossessed,
infatuated,
stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted,
hard-mouthed,
hidebound, unyielding,
impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible,
unpersuadable, intractable, untractable,
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason,
crotchety Phr. non possumus, no surrender, ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie
