one's own will
Example Sentences
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Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
But because of the transforming nature of forgiveness, coupled with the experience that it involves more than one’s own will, we concluded that it has a spiritual dimension.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
That often seems to be charity which is rather carnality; for natural inclination, one's own will, the hope of reward, and the liking for comfort are rarely absent.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The idea of sacrificing to one's god, not the lives of men, but one's own will and selfish desires, was entirely new to him.
From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate
A rule is prescribed either by some external authority or by one's own will; as, it is the rule of the house; or, I make it my invariable rule.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
