Obs. [f. VOLUNTARY a.: see -ITY.] Voluntariness, willingness, spontaneity.

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1794–6.  E. Darwin, Zoon. (1801), I. 94. The propensity to action, whether it be called irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, or associability.

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1805.  Monthly Mag., XX. 111. He was likely to make the surrender … with apparent complacence, equanimity, and voluntarity. Ibid. (1819), XLVIII. 43. A proof that great voluntarity of idea usually accompanies the individual.

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