of one's own accord

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

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

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

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.

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