
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin libentia, from libentem, libens (willing)
EXAMPLE
“… They say the appetit confined to good is volent, and therfore free: but this volence is a meer libence, free from coactiv violence; no tru liberty to chus several objects; and therfore not arbitrary, becaus bar’d of indifferency. …”
From: Theoremata Theologica: = Theological Treatises.:
Octo theses theologicæ: eight theses of divinity
By Robert Vilvain, 1654