will
Definition of will:
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part of speech: verb
A defective verb used along with another verb to express future time; in the first person, will promises or expresses fixed purpose or determination, as " I will eat"; in the second and third, will simply foretells, as, " thou wilt eat," " he will eat.
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part of speech: verb
To determine: to be resolved to do: to command: to dispose of by will.
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part of speech: noun
Would is also used to express a habit or custom, as if it implied a habitual exercise of will; as, she would weep all day; every other day he would fly into a passion.
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part of speech: verb
Aux., pres. I will, thou wilt, he will; past, would; no past participle. A word denoting either simple futurity or futurity combined with volition according to the subject of the verb. Thus, in the first person, I ( we) will, the word denotes willingness, consent, intention, or promise; and when emphasized in indicates determination or fixed purpose; as I will go, if you please; I will go at all hazards; I will have it in spite of him. In the second and third persons will expresses only a simple future or certainty, the idea of volition, purpose, or wish being lost; thus, " you will go," or " he will go," indicates a future event only. The second person may also be used as a polite command; as, you will be sure to do as I have told you.
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part of speech: noun
The power of determining or choosing; discretion; power; of determining or choosing; discretion; power; pleasure; inclination; intention; that which is wished or desired; a formal declaration in writin of what a person desires to be done with his real or personal estate after death; the written document containing such instruction.
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part of speech: noun
Will and would were formerly often used with adverbs and prepositional phrases to express motion or change of place, where modern usage would require will go, would go, or the like. " Now I will away;" " I'll to my books;" " he is very sick and would to bed;" " there were wit in this head, and 'twould out."- Shak.
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part of speech: verb
To determine; to direct; to choose; to enjoin; to dispose of by will or testament.
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part of speech: noun
Would stands in the same relation to will that should does to shall. Thus would is seldom or never a preterite indicative pure and simple, being mainly employed in subjunctive, conditional, or optative senses, in the latter case having often the functions and force of an independent verb; as, ( a) conditional or subjunctive, " he would do it if he could;" " he could do it if, he would;" " they would have gone had they been permitted." Here it will be seen would refers to the present only, the past being expressed by would have. In such sentences as " He was mistaken it would seem," or " it would appear"- in which should is sometimes used- would retains almost nothing of conditionality, having merely the effect of softening a direct statement. ( Mr. R. Grant White regards " it should seem" as the normal expression, though he quotes “ it would appear” from good English writers. He himself writes: “ It would seem that a man of Mr. Lowe's general intelligence should know," etc.
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part of speech: noun
Would most nearly has the force of a simple past indicative in such sentences as, " he would go and you see what has happened;" but this implies farther that he did actually go or at least set out, and the would is here emphatic.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
Power of choosing or determining: choice or determination: pleasure: command: arbitrary disposal: feeling towards, as in good or ill will: disposition of one's effects at death: the written document containing such.
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part of speech: noun
As regards will in questions, Mr. R. Grant White lays down the following rules: " Will is never to be used as a question with the first person; as, will I go? A man cannot ask if he wills to do anything that he must know and only he knows. As a question, will in the second person asks the intention of the person addressed; as, will you go to- morrow? that is, Do you mean to go to- morrow? As a question, will in the third person asks what is to be the future action of the person spoken of, with a necessary reference to intension; as, will he go? that is, Is he going? Does he mean to go and is his going sure? Simple futurity with the first person is appropriately expressed by shall. Among inaccurate speakers and writers, especially in Scotland, Ireland, and in some parts of the United States, there is some confusion in the use of shall and will; thus will improperly takes the place of shall in such frequently used phrases as, I will be obliged to you, " we will be at a loss," " I will be much gratified," and so on.
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part of speech: noun
Everyday English, chap. xiii.) ( b) Optative; " I would that I were young again." In this use the personal pronoun is often omitted. " Would to God we had died in Egypt."- Ex. xvi. 3. " Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom."- 2. Sam. xviii. 3. " Would thou wert as I am."- Shak.
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