"velleity" meaning in Anglais

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    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en latin",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin médiéval velleitas, dérivé de velle (« vouloir »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "velleities",
      "ipas": [
        "\\vɛˈliːɪtiz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Times, 24 octobre 1919, page 12 col. A",
          "text": "The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 372, 2006",
          "text": "Who could have imagined then, in Crumpsall, that the ancient Jewish hope, ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ – for so long more a velleity than a hope, the feeblest and most unanticipated of anticipations – would be realised in their lifetime and that they would be able to stand here, under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, but otherwise unimpeded, together?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Velléité."
      ],
      "id": "fr-velleity-en-noun-L1cuyyhy"
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "\\vɛˈliːɪti\\"
    },
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        "Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre)"
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  ],
  "word": "velleity"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en latin",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin médiéval velleitas, dérivé de velle (« vouloir »)."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "velleities",
      "ipas": [
        "\\vɛˈliːɪtiz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Times, 24 octobre 1919, page 12 col. A",
          "text": "The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 372, 2006",
          "text": "Who could have imagined then, in Crumpsall, that the ancient Jewish hope, ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ – for so long more a velleity than a hope, the feeblest and most unanticipated of anticipations – would be realised in their lifetime and that they would be able to stand here, under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, but otherwise unimpeded, together?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Velléité."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
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