Definition of "velleities" []

• Plural form of velleity. (noun)

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• "Over and over again, when reading newspaper articles full of pompous words borrowed from Latin through French, when wearied with 'velleities' and 'solidarities' and 'altruisms' and"
• "Has he ever taken the risk of parting ways with left-wing velleities?"
• "All the highest aspirations of the, early human race, its noblest religious temper, its most idealistic velleities of thought are summed up in this single vocable."