Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a voluntary manner; of one's own motion; without being moved, influenced, or impelled by others; spontaneously; freely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a voluntary manner; of one's own will; spontaneously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
voluntary manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb out of your own free will
Etymologies
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Examples
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By this criterion we distinguish our waking from our sleeping hours, we can voluntarily recollect our sleeping ideas, when we are awake, and compare them with our waking ones; but we cannot in our sleep _voluntarily_ recollect our waking ideas at all.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Also note that, even if the insurance companies decided to ** voluntarily lower their premiums** in response to 'tort reform', the medical practitioners, hospitals, etc. would ALSO have to ** voluntarily** do the same thing (pass the savings on, rather than simply make a tad more profit) before you or I would every see lower health care costs ...
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If he does not surrender the title voluntarily, sooner or later they will take it by force, and that part of the empire along with it.
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Then one of the five came in voluntarily and gave himself up, and Sheldon learned that Gogoomy and two others were all that were at large.
Chapter 23 2010
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If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.
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If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.
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If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.
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The idea of going back voluntarily is almost impossible to imagine.
Mark Olmsted: My Brother's Keeper Mark Olmsted 2010
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“If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.”
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If Hitchens could do it voluntarily is it not torture.
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