unnecessitatingadj.
/ˌʌnnᵻˈsɛsᵻteɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənnəˈsɛsəˌteɪdɪŋ/ Now rare.
That does not necessitate, compel, or constrain.
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the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > not compelling
unnecessitating1638
unconstraining1644
1638 H. Rogers Protestant Church Existent xi. 80 Let Histories extend to Records, or Monuments, so they be without exception, I well receive them in their degree as a humane, probable, uncertaine, unnecessitating proofe.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 48 The unnecessitating Command of an intelligent Superior.
1849 Q. Rev. Methodist Episcopal Church, South July 355 Oh, how are we lost in the wide and the unsearchable, when we contemplate this permissive, unnecessitating, yet superintending providence.
2011 T. Honderich in R. Kane Oxf. Handbk. Free Will (ed. 2) vi. xxii. 446 If later unnecessitated events are said to be explained by prior events only in some unnecessitating way, then the prior events are not causes and the later events not effects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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