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Involuntary   /ɪnvˈɑləntˌɛri/   Listen
Involuntary

adjective
1.
Not subject to the control of the will.  Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary.  "Involuntary servitude" , "An involuntary shudder" , "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"
2.
Controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control.  "Gave an involuntary start"



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"Involuntary" Quotes from Famous Books



... and ominous air that was skirling up on the hillside; and Mackenzie's face, as he heard it, grew wroth. "That teffle of a piper John!" he said with an involuntary stamp of his foot. "What for will he be ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... apologise," he began, with an involuntary stiffness, "for calling at this very unceremonious time; but the fact ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... very amusing and instructive task for a man of reading and reflection to note down the instances he meets with of these old tunes coming up again and again in regular succession with hardly any change of note, and with all the old hitches and involuntary squeaks that the barrel-organ had played in days gone by. It is most amusing to see the old quotations repeated year after year and volume after volume, till at last some more careful enquirer turns to the passage referred to and finds that they have all been taken in and have ...
— Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces • Samuel Butler
... round at Isbister's footfall. Both men were disconcerted, Isbister the more so, and, to override the awkwardness of his involuntary pause, he remarked, with an air of mature conviction, that the weather was hot ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells
... the involuntary outburst of a traveled visitor, will be echoed by thousands who feel the magic of what the master artists and architects of America have done here in celebration of the Panama Canal. I put the "artists" first, because this Exposition has set a new standard. Among all ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber


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