volitionless

(vəˈlɪʃənlɪs)

adj

having no volition

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On the instant Saxon's brain snapped with a white flash of light, while her whole body relaxed, numb and weak, volitionless, sad her vision reeled and blurred.

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It suggests how the Authority and Metatron would like all the universes to be: devoid of everything except volitionless creatures conscious of the gods' power and control.

"Every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling": Philip Pullman and the challenge of religious intolerance

Centered on smallish, vertically oriented sheets and pressed against opaque skies, Ali's people--if that's the word for them--appear volitionless. Crisp geometry and a pervasive, perhaps telltale palette of flat reds, whites, and blues lock the characters into their clothes, as if their bodies were mere filler for elaborate headdresses, wimples, and tunics.

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If Sophie had been just a victim--helpless as a blown leaf, a human speck, volitionless, like so many multitudes of her fellow damned--she would have seemed merely pathetic, another wretched waif of the storm cast up in Brooklyn with no secrets which had to be unlocked.

The passage quoted above takes the position that a victim is helpless and volitionless, whereas an accomplice performs acts that presumably could be helped and which involve volition.

Sexual politics and confessional testimony in Sophie's Choice

But subordination slipped in the back door, insofar as woman's value was reduced to her central organ, making her a volitionless vehicle to reproduce males; so the new medical terms, like the old, supported theological and social norms of hierarchy.

Frau im Spiegel: Die Selben und die Andere zwischen Welt und Text: Von Herren, Fremden und Frauen, in 16.Jahrhundert

Because objects produce in men "appetites and aversions" associated with pleasure and pain; and man is a volitionless machine.