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- adverb In a
nonvoluntary manner.
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nonvoluntary + -ly
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The lessons, the sermons, the lectures, and the books in which we are most interested, and hence to which we attend nonvoluntarily and with the least effort and fatigue, are the ones out of which, other things being equal, we get the most and remember the best and longest.
The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901
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