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
The Court has not weighed in on the so-called voluntariness issue since DNA-based exonerations began to reveal just how common false confessions are in our justice system.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2018
No explanation, however, can be considered satisfactory which does not safeguard two ideas of a deeply ethical nature—the voluntariness and the vicariousness of Christ's sacrifice.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander
