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voluntaˈristic, a.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
1. Pertaining or belonging to the philosophical theory of voluntarism.
1903Athenæum 30 May 694/1 Voluntaristic Idealism, on the contrary, lays primary stress on purpose and relevancy of purpose.
2. Pertaining to voluntary action.
1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society i. iv. 89 Where voluntaristic activities are concerned the sectarian's feud with society remains latent. 1969A. Stewart in Ionescu & Gellner Populism 194 Populist movements which are basically protest movements are threatened by the anti-institutional, voluntaristic character of grass-roots populism. 1974B. Pearce tr. Amin's Accumulation on World Scale I. 29 Being voluntaristic in character, development policy draws upon new techniques of economic planning in order to work out the series of choices involved. 1977Dædalus Summer 72 The obligatory component in social relationship yields to the optional or voluntaristic, status gives way to contract. 1982[see voluntarism 3 b]. |