voluntarily

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VOL'UNTARILY, adverb [from voluntary.] Spontaneously; of one's own will; without being moved, influenced or impelled by others. To be agents voluntarily in our own destruction, is against God and nature.
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