Volition

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.

(2): ( n.) The power of willing or determining; will.

(3): ( n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Lat. volo, "to will") is that act of the mind by which it knowingly exerts that dominion which it possesses over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. (See Will).