† spontanealadj.
Obsolete.
Spontaneous, in various senses.
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the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > proceeding from free will
selflyOE
self-willOE
willesOE
needlessc1225
wilninga1250
wilfulc1374
voluntaryc1449
spontany1532
voluntarious1532
spontaneal1602
voluntaire1615
self-willing1625
ultroneous1637
unimposed1642
elective1643
spontaneous1656
contingent1660
unmechanic1709
volitient1844
unmechanical1865
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 58 But curtesie is a free, spontaneal and ingenious quality, to which no inforcement can be used.
1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon Nat. & Exper. Hist. Winds 361 Let the seventeenth Motion be the Spontaneall or Willing Motion of Rotation or wheeling.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 82 The occasional and spontaneal depravations of their ferments.
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