of one's own accord
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Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; Ð preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
Hence it is folly and overscrupulousness to add restrictions of one's own accord except in critical instances, as indicated above.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
It also carries the meaning self, of one's own accord: i bobongi ka manata tetea ana marana the morrow can take care of itself.
From Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens
Ann. vi. 23; whereas sua sponte, quite of one’s own accord, like αὐτομάτως, in opp. to rogatus, provocatus, or invitatus.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
