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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In an involuntary manner; not spontaneously; without one's will.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In an involuntary manner; done without conscious thought.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. against your will

Etymologies

  1. involuntary +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “As it is, Bobby Garwood was a major embarrassment to two government: the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, for their claiming no living Americans remain involuntarily in their country, and to the U.S. for believing them.”

    Statistics on the Prisoner of War issue

  • “House cleaning, voluntarily and/or involuntarily, is required and a fresh start is needed.”

    Has Microsoft Sent Yahoo Into a Death Spiral? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

  • “Long Sin," came the name involuntarily to my lips, for I knew that Wu would delegate just such a job to his faithful slave.”

    The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"

  • “So he was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more than once he cried out involuntarily from the bite of his inward hurt.”

    Chapter 4

  • “And at last she found herself uttering the name involuntarily, overcome by something stronger than her dread.”

    Demos

  • “She blushed crimson as the word involuntarily broke from her lips, and cried again as loudly as she could, "Help!”

    The Bread-winners A Social Study

  • “Astonishment, pleasure, hope, and shame, took alternate rapid possession of her mind; but the last sensation was the first that visibly operated, and she snatched her hand involuntarily from the Major.”

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth

  • “I knew not what to say; but I sighed involuntarily from the bottom of my heart.”

    Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World

  • “And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily or said it truly meaning him, the name she was screaming and saying was not his at all.”

    Toni Morrison - Prose

  • “He shouted Raederle's name involuntarily, in horror, and the floor lurched under him again, shrugging him toward the lake.”

    Harpist in the Wind

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