ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell &c 992;
necessitate; compel &c 744.
Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisite) 630.
fated; destined &c v.; elect; spellbound compulsory &c (compel) 744; uncontrollable,
inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless † , resistless.
involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting,
unthinking; unintentional &c (undesigned) 621; impulsive &c 612.
Adv. necessarily &c adv.; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei [Lat.]; needs must;
perforce &c 744; nolens volens [Lat.]; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre [Fr.],
willing or unwilling, coute que coute [Fr.].
faute de mieux [Fr.]; by stress of; if need be.
Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be,
it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea [Lat.]; che
sara sara [Fr.]; it is written; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant
[Lat.]; diis aliter visum [Lat.]; actum me invito factus [Lat.], non est meus actus [Lat.];
aujord'hui roi demain rien [Fr.]; quisque suos patimur manes [Lat.] [Vergil]; The moving
finger writes and having writ moves on.
Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to cancel half a [Rubayyat of Omar
Khayyam].
602. Willingness -- N. willingness, voluntariness &c adj. † ; willing mind, heart.
disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent &c
(turn of mind) 820; penchant &c (desire) 865; aptitude &c 698.
docility, docibleness † ; persuasibleness † , persuasibility † ; pliability &c (softness) 324.
geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness
&c (desire) 865.
asset &c 488; compliance &c 762; pleasure &c (will) 600; gratuitous service.
labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.
V. be willing &c adj.; incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give
a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling
to; desire &c 865.
see fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce &c (assent) 488; comply with &c 762.
swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple of, make no
scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway; volunteer.
Adj. willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable; favorably-minded, favorably
inclined, favorably disposed; nothing loth; in the vein, in the mood, in the humor, in the
mind.
ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon &c (desirous) 865; predisposed, propense † .
docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible † , easily persuaded, facile, easy-going;
tractable &c (pliant) 324; genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty; content &c
(assenting) 488.
voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked &c (ask) &c 765; unforced &c (free) 748.
Adv. willingly &c adj.; fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with pleasure, with all one's
heart, with open arms; with good will, with right will; de bonne volonte [Fr.], ex animo
[Lat.]; con amore [It], heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own
accord, graciously, with a good grace.