voluntary
adjective
done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice.
voluntariness
-
a word derived from
voluntary.
Example Sentences
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That shift becomes even clearer when the court addresses voluntariness.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
The Nankai report authors write glowingly of an effort to combat poverty underwritten by a "guarantee of voluntariness" in the work placements, and with the factories allowing the workers to "leave and return freely."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2021
“If that had been true, surely they would have brought those issues up and prevailed in pretrial hearings on the voluntariness of their statements, as well as in their lawsuit against the city,” she wrote.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2019
By the nineteen-sixties, the notion of voluntariness had become so troublesome that jurists sought a way to clarify the matter.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2018
Propensities, Natural, effect on voluntariness of acts, 54.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
