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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin

Meaning of "with a will" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WITH A WILL

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WITH A WILL

with a bang
with a capital letter
with a difference
with a grain of salt
with a pinch of salt
with a vengeance
with a view to
with all one´s heart
with all the trimmings
with an eye to
with bad grace
with bated breath
with child
with egg on one´s face
with good grace
with impunity
with it
with might and main
with one accord
with one voice

WORDS THAT END LIKE WITH A WILL

at will
cavalry twill
free will
free-will
general will
goodwill
ill will
iron will
living will
pigswill
poorwill
self-will
six o´clock swill
swill
twill
unwill
what you will
whippoorwill
will

Synonyms and antonyms of with a will in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «with a will» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WITH A WILL

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Translator English - Chinese

有意愿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

con una voluntad
570 millions of speakers

English

with a will
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक इच्छा के साथ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بإرادة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

с воли
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

com uma vontade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একটি ইচ্ছা সঙ্গে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avec une volonté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan kehendak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mit einem Willen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

本気で
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

의지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Karo bakal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

với một ý chí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரு விருப்பத்துடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एक इच्छा सह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Istekli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

con una volontà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

z woli
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з волі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu o voință
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

με θέληση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

met ´n testament
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

med en vilja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

med en vilje
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WITH A WILL»

The term «with a will» is very widely used and occupies the 2.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about with a will

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3 QUOTES WITH «WITH A WILL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word with a will.
1
Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
2
Paul Gauguin
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
3
John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITH A WILL»

Discover the use of with a will in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to with a will and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community
Since to be a being with a will is to act for a reason (indeed, it is identical with Gewirth's concept of a PPA), and to deny that I am a being with a will is to act for a reason, I cannot coherently deny that I am a being with a will. Since the question of ...
Michael Boylan, 1999
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The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the ...
... next his own glory and kingdom, our own holiness and happiness, and not our misery ; but to submit to his just punishments, with a will that loveth (not the hurt, but) the final good effect, and the wisdom, holiness, and justice of our chastiser.
Richard Baxter, William Orme, 1830
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The Categorical Imperative: A Study in Kant's Moral Philosophy
To think of rational beings as ' K.p.V., 29-30 = 140 ( = 53). '£•-. 4'= ( = 36). * Gr., 446 ( = 97). * Gr., 448 ( = 101) ; 452 ( = 108). * Gr., 394 ( = 3). * Gr- 427 ( = 63). endowed with a will is to think of them as 2O8 THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE  ...
Herbert James Paton, 1971
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The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime ...
As with a will, in a living trust you can change these designations anytime you want, and you can also revoke the trust anytime. When you die, the successor trustee transfers ownership of the property in the trust 34 the Boomer Burden.
Julie Hall, 2008
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The Emigrant's Guide to Australia ... With a New Map of the ...
The man who will go out to the southern colonies, having no capital but his labour, with stout arms and a stout heart, with no old-werld prejudices hanging about him, determined to work with a will, and to adapt himself to the new country and ...
John CAPPER, 1852
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Will of Steel
Only one thing stands in his way, a feisty woman who is prepared to meet his challenge. Sparks fly as they go toe-to-toe, but can the man with a will of steel finally learn what it means to bend?
Diana Palmer, 2010
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International Succession
(b) A local succession/inheritance order can be obtained to give effect to a foreign order through a foreign applicant applying for a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee with a will. The foreign applicant must also file a certified copy of the ...
Louis Garb, 2004
8
Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of ...
This animal is a monster, the very "enigma of evil," "a viscosity with a will," a boneless, bloodless, fleshless creature with a unique orifice equivocally and disquietingly serving as both mouth and anus. Endowed with eight powerful tentacles ...
Allen S. Weiss, 2002
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The Act for the Amendment of the Law with Respect to Wills, ...
... having frequently declared himself to be dissatisfied with a will, ordered a person to fetch it, being in bed near the (ire, and when it was brought gave it a rent and threw it into the fire, where it would have been burnt had not the person who ...
Robert Lush, 1838
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The Creatures of Arator A-e
A succubus may possess any individuals or beings with a will power below their own. Those possessed will lose complete control and are under the complete sway of the succubus. A succubus can remain in the individual or being for up to  ...
Joseph Barresi, 2010

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