will-less

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Why Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.*

From Time Magazine Archive

It was reported that 70% of estates administered in court are will-less.

From Time Magazine Archive

These boys and girls were will-less, their speech flat, their gestures vague, their personalities devoid of anger, hope, laughter, enthusiasm, passion, or despair.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

They stood in lines, unmoving, without speech among themselves, men who might have been frozen into immobility and arranged so for some game in which they were the voiceless, will-less pieces.

From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre

Ann Putnam’s form may have been used by another’s will in each and all of her imputed accusations for witchcraft, and she, as far as then concerned, have been absolutely a will-less instrument.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen