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ˈvoluntariness
[f. voluntary a. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being voluntary, free, or unconstrained; absolute freedom or liberty in respect of choice, determination, or action; spontaneity: a. Of actions.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 14 Vnto both which branches of his obedience, if you adde the voluntarinesse and freedome of both, the whole will appeare most perfectly meritorious. 1644Hammond Will-Worship §16 The voluntarynesse of an action is not able to defame it, if there be..no irregularity imputable to the action it selfe abstracted from the voluntarinesse. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Voluntary, There are two Things..requir'd to the Voluntariness of an Action. 1782J. Benson in MacDonald Mem. (1822) 134 The Author attempts to show that liberty is voluntariness... We are said to be free when we act from choice. 1865Churchman 14 Dec. 1400/2 The bare voluntariness which attaches to every act of a layman's religious life. 1881J. Macpherson Conf. Faith xii. (1882) 73 The voluntariness of Christ's service is everywhere throughout the Scriptures made most clear.
b. Of persons.
1643R. Baker Chron., Edw. I, 125 This voluntarines in Prince Edward, won the King of France againe to grant quietly unto him, all the Lands [etc.]. 1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 7 Doth not their voluntarinesse and free complyance make the Usurpation compleater? a1672Sterry Freed. Will (1675) 47 God, where the highest Voluntariness and the highest Necessity meet. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Voluntariness, the doing a Thing voluntarily, or without Constraint. 1856Olmsted Slave States 490 All the faculties..will be developed..by any man,..in proportion to the voluntariness—the good will with which they are exercised. 1892Quiver July 695/2 Liberty and voluntariness..had no existence in the ancient world.
c. With pl. An instance of this. rare.
1612H. Ainsworth Annot. Ps. cx. 3 Thy people shall be voluntaries in the day of thy power,..a people of voluntarinesses or of liberalities. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace iv. 71 They shall be voluntarinesses, as willing as willingnesses itself. |