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volentary

volentary is the misspelling of voluntary.

Meaning of voluntary

Adjective

voluntary (comparative more voluntary, superlative most voluntary)

  1. Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
    • September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College
      That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
  2. Done by design or intention; intentional.
    • If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
    Synonyms:
    intentional
  3. Working or done without payment.
    • Wikimedia is a voluntary service.
  4. Endowed with the power of willing.
    • […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.1594, Richard Hooker, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5
  5. Of or relating to voluntarism.
    • a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

See all 9 meanings of voluntary

Questions about volentary

What is volentary the misspelling of?
Volentary is the misspelling of voluntary.

Words near volentary in the dictionary

  1. volemitol
  2. volency
  3. Volendam
  4. volens
  5. volent
  6. volentary
  7. volepox
  8. voleries
  9. volery
  10. voles
  11. volet

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