'velleity' in Writers at Work: Volume 3 | Bookmarker

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(noun) the lowest degree of volition / (noun) a slight wish or tendency; inclination

I think good style is a matter of rendering out of oneself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the velleities.

—p.266 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer

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