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voluntariest

voluntariest is the superlative form 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 voluntariest

What is voluntariest the superlative form of?
Voluntariest is the superlative form of voluntary.

Words near voluntariest in the dictionary

  1. volunpeer
  2. volunpeers
  3. voluntariate
  4. voluntariates
  5. voluntaries
  6. voluntariest
  7. voluntarily
  8. voluntariness
  9. voluntarinesses
  10. voluntarism
  11. voluntarisms

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