velleities in English
noun
1
a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.
the notion intrigued me, but remained a velleity
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1. Gentlemen, you must therefore pardon my bafflement and my abjuration, for if a man's claim be silently usurped on the overeager velleities of a blackguard, he is surely less compromised in stupefied observation than in ductile Abettings of sibilant machinators.