voluntaryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒ.lən.tɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑ.lənˌtɛ.ɹi/
• ハイフネーション: vol‧un‧ta‧ry

形容詞

voluntary (comparative more voluntary, superlative most voluntary)

1. Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
   • (Can we date this quote by N. W. Taylor かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.

   • 1726, Pope, Alexander, transl., “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 345; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 540:

     She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.

2. Done by design or intention; intentional.

   If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.

3. Working or done without payment.
4. Endowed with the power of willing.
   • 1594, Hooker, Richard, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie‎^[1], London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5:

     […] 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.

5. Of or relating to voluntarism.

   a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

同意語

• (acting of one's own free will): discretionary, optional, volitional; See also Thesaurus:optional
• (done by design または intention): intentional, willful
• (done without payment): honorary, pro bono, unpaid, unsalaried, unwaged
• (endowed with the power of willing): autonomous, spontaneous

反意語

• (all): involuntary
• (acting of one's own free will): compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
• (done by design または intention): accidental
• (done without payment): paid, salaried

派生語

• voluntarily
• voluntary aided school
• voluntary controlled school
• voluntary manslaughter

関連する語

• voluntarism
• voluntarist

副詞

voluntary (comparative more voluntary, superlative most voluntary)

1. (obsolete) Voluntarily.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].

名詞

voluntary (複数形 voluntaries)

1. (music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
2. A volunteer.
3. A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist.