autonomouslyadv.
/ɔːˈtɒnəməsli/, U.S. /ɔˈtɑnəməsli/, /əˈtɑnəməsli/, /ɑˈtɑnəməsli/ As an autonomous being, state, etc.; in an autonomous manner.
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society > authority > rule or government > autonomy > [adverb]
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [adverb] > free from authority
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1849 tr. H. Olshausen Biblical Comm. on New Test. vii. 253 This law, which the man feels himself unable to satisfy, is not, however, given to him autonomously [Ger. autonomisch], but God gives it him by the νοῦς.
1881 G. S. Hall Aspects German Culture 183 We must know and autonomously will to follow non-egoistic absolute ends as essentially our ends.
1897 W. E. Gladstone E. Crisis 14 Why should not Crete be autonomously united with Greece, and yet not detached in theory from the body of the Ottoman Empire?
1923 Times 18 July 12/1 France would object to the constitution of another body which would act autonomously.
1986 T. Tanner Jane Austen vi. 183 Harriet has moved beyond her control and threatens to act autonomously.
2007 Computer Weekly 4 Dec. 21/1 Each functional area [of the organization] acting largely autonomously to deliver its respective objectives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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