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Definition of "voluntarily" []

  • In a voluntary manner. (adverb)

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Use "voluntarily" in a sentence
  • "By this criterion we distinguish our waking from our sleeping hours, we can voluntarily recollect our sleeping ideas, when we are awake, and compare them with our waking ones; but we cannot in our sleep _voluntarily_ recollect our waking ideas at all."
  • "Also note that, even if the insurance companies decided to ** voluntarily lower their premiums** in response to 'tort reform', the medical practitioners, hospitals, etc. would ALSO have to ** voluntarily** do the same thing (pass the savings on, rather than simply make a tad more profit) before you or I would every see lower health care costs ..."
  • "If he does not surrender the title voluntarily, sooner or later they will take it by force, and that part of the empire along with it."