free-willingadj.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xxxv. 29 The children of Israel brought fre-wyllynge offerynges.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxx. B And y^e people were glad that they were fre wyllinge: for they gaue it w^t a good wyll..vnto the Lorde.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. xvii. 84 It is certain that God as Creator hath made man..a Free-willing Agent.

1777 J. Fletcher Doctr. Grace & Justice ii. 16 As free-willing, afflicted creatures, we may, during that day, chuse which we please.

1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 329 The observations show the marsupial young to have a chylopoietic, warm-blooded, oxydating, innervating, and free-willing life.

1873 E. H. Browne Genesis 48/1 We may reflect that man was created a reasonable, free-willing, responsible being.

1930 F. E. Haynes Criminol. i. 6 The ordinary conception of crime..conceives of criminals as free-willing, free-acting, vicious persons, who commit their acts out of diabolical purposes.

1950 C. G. Le Boutillier Amer. Democracy & Nat. Law ii. 89 Just law, undergirding a society which would otherwise be inchoate, and binding it into statehood, into a community of free-willing men.

1991 Q. McLoughlin Relativistic Naturalism i. 12 Social science, which originally was the study of the arrangements free-willing individuals make in their interactions.