OF ONE'S OWN ACCORD Definition & Meaning

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Also, of one's own free will . Voluntarily, without prompting or coercion, as in The entire audience rose of their own accord , or No, I'm climbing this mountain of my own free will . The first term dates from about 1450, the variant from about 1600.

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Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; Ð preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

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It is no easy task to tumble off a pedestal of one's own accord, even when one has not put oneself there.

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Ann. vi. 23; whereas sua sponte, quite of one’s own accord, like αὐτομάτως, in opp. to rogatus, provocatus, or invitatus.

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Yet even the feelings which one experiences by contagion one can experience only of one's own accord, in one's own way, and according to one's disposition.

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Hence it is folly and overscrupulousness to add restrictions of one's own accord except in critical instances, as indicated above.

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