voluntaristicadj.

1903 Athenæum 30 May 694/1 Voluntaristic Idealism, on the contrary, lays primary stress on purpose and relevancy of purpose.

1961 B. R. Wilson Sects & Society i. iv. 89 Where voluntaristic activities are concerned the sectarian's feud with society remains latent.

1969 A. Stewart in G. Ionescu & E. Gellner Populism 194 Populist movements which are basically protest movements are threatened by the anti-institutional, voluntaristic character of grass-roots populism.

1974 B. Pearce tr. S. Amin Accumulation on World Scale I. 29 Being voluntaristic in character, development policy draws upon new techniques of economic planning in order to work out the series of choices involved.

1977 Dædalus Summer 72 The obligatory component in social relationship yields to the optional or voluntaristic, status gives way to contract.

1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Aug. 30 Bernardin could be the key to the rebirth of a larger sense of community—at a time when its implicit sense of voluntarism would be in keeping with the Reagan era and with the voluntaristic spirit alive today.