Definition of voluntaryism in English:
voluntaryism
noun ˈvɒlənt(ə)rɪˌɪz(ə)mˈvälənˌterēizəm
less common term for voluntarism (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- Note the different methods used to fulfill the Great Commission and be alert for three important traditions which shape American Christianity: pluralism, voluntaryism, and lay participation.
- It seems to me that the left-anarchist is too ready to confuse voluntaryism with mainstream economics.
- I said that voluntaryism is incomplete as the basis of a state.
- Others felt that given the lack of voluntaryism, an incentives approach would have been better.
- With voluntaryism and self-improvement went self-respect, a code of honesty and a sense of respectability.
- This means that moral actions on the personal level are determined by your values, while on the interpersonal level they are determined by respect of self-determination and voluntaryism.
- In churchmanship he moved in the early 1840s from less than wholehearted defence of civil establishments of religion to vehement voluntaryism and opposition to state aid to all churches.
- We have discovered anew that voluntaryism is of the essence of the Gospel.
Derivatives
noun
Regardless of whether you agree with the voluntaryist strategy of non-participation in electoral politics, their exploration of it is powerful, thought-provoking, and raises issues that every libertarian interested in achieving a free society must be familiar with.
Example sentencesExamples
- Actually, anarcho-capitalists rather often refer to themselves as contractists or voluntaryists to stress the fact that they disapprove of any coercive or force-based measures and champion a society where every individual is free to arrange his or her life as seen fit.
- This ordinance was also bitterly opposed by voluntaryists in the council and throughout the colony, but in 1848 it came into operation for three years.
- From time to time, you may like to talk with family and friends about your voluntaryist beliefs.
- ‘I am a voluntaryist,’ the man said, tripping slightly over the awkward term.