"velleitary" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Derived from velleity.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more velleitary",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most velleitary",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1668, Robert Brown, Jerubbaal, Or, A Vindication of The Sober Testimony Against Sinful Complyance:",
          "text": "The Preface of the S.T. being vindicated from the exceptions of Mr. T. wherein his skirmiſhings have been manifeſted to be velitary, and weak indeed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And these kisses, […] it was Mrs. Gorman's invariable habit to catch up, as it were, upon her own lips, and return, with tranquil civility, as one picks up a glove, or newspaper, let fall in some public place, and restores it with a smile, if not a bow, to its rightful proprietor. So that each kiss was in reality two kisses, first Watt's kiss, velleitary, anxious, and then Mrs. Gorman's, unctious and urbane.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Ross Chambers, Loiterature:",
          "text": "The women, who are frequently, if not universally, complicitous with Mona, are also shown to be velleitary and unwilling to break with convention as she has done: \"I'd have liked to be free,\" says one, dreamily; and another: \"When you're married, you're caught for life\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Slow in taking action; lacking resolve."
      ],
      "id": "en-velleitary-en-adj-QGk2oqMW",
      "links": [
        [
          "resolve",
          "resolve"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "velleitary"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Derived from velleity.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more velleitary",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most velleitary",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1668, Robert Brown, Jerubbaal, Or, A Vindication of The Sober Testimony Against Sinful Complyance:",
          "text": "The Preface of the S.T. being vindicated from the exceptions of Mr. T. wherein his skirmiſhings have been manifeſted to be velitary, and weak indeed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And these kisses, […] it was Mrs. Gorman's invariable habit to catch up, as it were, upon her own lips, and return, with tranquil civility, as one picks up a glove, or newspaper, let fall in some public place, and restores it with a smile, if not a bow, to its rightful proprietor. So that each kiss was in reality two kisses, first Watt's kiss, velleitary, anxious, and then Mrs. Gorman's, unctious and urbane.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Ross Chambers, Loiterature:",
          "text": "The women, who are frequently, if not universally, complicitous with Mona, are also shown to be velleitary and unwilling to break with convention as she has done: \"I'd have liked to be free,\" says one, dreamily; and another: \"When you're married, you're caught for life\".",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Slow in taking action; lacking resolve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "resolve",
          "resolve"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "velleitary"
}