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comparative more voluntary, superlative most voluntary
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will. quotations examples
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College
She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.
1726, Alexander, transl. Pope, “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 345; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 540
Done by design or intention; intentional. examples
Working or done without payment. examples
Endowed with the power of willing. quotations examples
[…] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
1594, Richard Hooker, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5
Of or relating to voluntarism. examples
(obsolete) Voluntarily. quotations
And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
plural voluntaries
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument. examples
A volunteer. examples
A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist. examples