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Voluntary

adjective

1.

Of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled. "Participation was voluntary" , "Voluntary manslaughter" , "Voluntary generosity in times of disaster" , "Voluntary social workers" , "A voluntary confession" Antonym: involuntary.

2.

Controlled by individual volition. "Voluntary muscles" Antonym: involuntary.

noun

(pl. voluntaries)

1.

(military) a person who freely enlists for service. Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer. Antonym: draftee.

2.

Composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance.

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"Voluntary" Quotes from Famous Books

... very essence, and such a transition as death in its experience, furnishes us with a sufficient task in the mere ceaseless government and education which it requires, without our superadding to this difficult charge the culpability of infinite neglect, the absolute damage and injury and all the voluntary deterioration, sin, and sorrow which ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

... conversation with his captor he displayed conversational powers that showed an ability to please, and as woman kind, even among fairy circles, are, according to an Irish proverb, "aisily caught be an oily tongue," the presumption is against the expulsion of the Leprechawn and in favor of his voluntary retirement. ...

— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.

... constructed. The ministers of the Church were rendered submissive to the civil power. Primary education became alike free and compulsory. As the phrase went, Guzman Blanco "taught Venezuela to read." At the end of his term of office he went into voluntary retirement. ...

— The Hispanic Nations of the New World - Volume 50 in The Chronicles Of America Series • William R. Shepherd

... magnitude that it can be compared only with the Napoleonic wars. But at that time also the higher classes had to contribute to the war expenditures. In 1810 an income tax was put upon the landed nobility. Wishing to make it appear that the war tax is a voluntary contribution, the Government levied it according to the declarations of the taxpayers and refused to listen to informers as to tax-dodging. The tax rate was progressive, with a maximum of 10 per cent. All incomes below 500 rubles ($250)[1] ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... pealing in the voluntary rare, Through the fine oak-panelled ceiling went the maiden's broken prayer That she might but for a moment be allowed to have her sight, To see old Alec's honest face ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

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