Voluntary

Definitions: Voluntary

Voluntary

Adjective

1. Of your own free will or design; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession".

2. (physiology) controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles".

Noun

1. A person who freely enlist for military service.

2. Composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a service or performance.

Date "voluntary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Voluntary

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
VOS	English	Voluntary Observing Ship	Geography, Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Voluntary

Synonyms: military volunteer (n), volunteer (n). (additional references)

Antonyms: involuntary (adj), draftee (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Voluntary

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi; popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence; (of causes); cooperation; (voluntary).
Counteraction	Voluntary opposition; voluntary resistance; repression; (restraint).
Giving	Bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance; amortization.
Physical Energy	Activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy; quicksilver.
School	Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory.
Seclusion Exclusion	Noun: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; Adjective: delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness; (singleness); isolation; loneliness; Adjective: estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.
Will	Adjective: voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive.
Willingness	Voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked; (ask; ); unforced; (free).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Voluntary

English words defined with "voluntary": abandonment, alms, alms-giving, animal, animate being, Antrustion, Associated movements, ataxia, ataxy, Automatical ♦ Baptist Church, Baptists, basal ganglion, beast, brute ♦ catalepsy, compulsorily, Consociation, Contentious jurisdiction, continence, contribution, creature ♦ delivery, disclaimer, donation, dyschezia, dyskinesia, dyssynergia ♦ Easter dues ♦ fauna, fornication ♦ General average, giving, Grand Army of the Republic ♦ Judge-Advocate General ♦ Kinesodic ♦ legal transfer, livery ♦ mandatorily, motor ataxia ♦ obligatorily ♦ Peace offering, penance, Peter pence, Peter's pence, philanthropic gift, philanthropy, Pollicitation, Postlude, Progressive locomotor ataxy ♦ Seguestration, self-abasement, self-mortification, Self-motion, semitrance ♦ To pass around the hat, trance ♦ Ultroneous, unpaid worker, utopian socialism ♦ Voluntaries, Voluntariness, Voluntary affidavit, Voluntary conveyance, Voluntary escape, Voluntary jurisdiction, voluntary muscle, Voluntary waste, Voluntaryism, volunteer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "voluntary": maximum voluntary ventilation ♦ voluntary agreement ♦ World Federation for Voluntary Surgical Contraception, World Federation of Health Agencies for the Advancement of Voluntary Surgical Contraception. (references)

Etymologies containing "voluntary": Benevolent ♦ involuntary ♦ malevolent ♦ Volition, Voluptuous. (references)

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Modern Usage: Voluntary

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Pimple: His Voluntary Corps (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Voluntary

Domain	Title
Books	Development by Consent: The Voluntary Supply of Public Goods and Services (reference) Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda (reference) History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture (Medicine and Culture) (reference) International Perspectives on Voluntary Action: Reshaping the Third Sector (reference) Vacation Work's International Directory of Voluntary Work (International Directory of Voluntary Work, 7th Ed) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Bureau Of Voluntary Compliance State Board Of Pharmacy Newsletters (reference) Dimensions Of The Voluntary Sector (reference) Voluntary Euthanasia Society Membership (reference) International Journal Of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing (reference) Association For Research In The Voluntary & Community Sector Membership (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Trumpet Voluntary (reference) Trumpet Voluntary [IMPORT] (reference) Voluntary Solitary (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Voluntary

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Great Britain, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital, Newton-Abbot, England. : American patient with children.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The voluntary manner in which some of the Southern volunteers enlist.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Voluntary assessments.Credit: Library of Congress.		Uniforms of the American Women's Voluntary Services, modeled by, from left to right: Leila Ernst, Betty Middendaf, Eleanor Chandler, Eve Whitney, Dorothy Temple, and B.J. Graham.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Hep, two, three, four clipping of a brisk cadence, enlisted WAVES cross their first bridge enroute to their initial drill session on the Smith College Campus, Northampton, Massachusetts. The gals didn't even.Credit: Library of Congress.		Japanese enlistment. A group of 110 men from the village of Aiea, Territory of Hawaii crowd into Selective Service Board No. 9 in Waipahu. They are waiting to sign applications for voluntary induction into the U.S. Army's recently formed combat regiment c.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Don't choke & rob workers of the right to strike : so-called voluntary arbitration, a trap for the worker : oppose arbitration tribunal!.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Voluntary

Author	Quotation
Blaise Pascal	Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca	Drunkeness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
Seneca	Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
William Hazlitt	They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Voluntary

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	So that their politic societies all began from a voluntary union, and the mutual agreement of men freely acting in the choice of their governors, and forms of government. (Second Treatise of Government)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The German Army may only be constituted and recruited by means of voluntary enlistment. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Voluntary

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had known neither one nor the other, and he had had a sort of voluntary night over his eyes.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Voluntary

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Treatment does not need to be voluntary to be effective. (references)
		Paralysis, or problems in the control of voluntary movement. (references)
		These voluntary mechanisms are learned and culturally prescribed (i.e., toilet training). (references)
Business		Under NOM-051-SCFI-1994, nutritional information is voluntary, unless a nutritional claim is made. (references)
		There is voluntary help too, and it is growing, but it still plays only a marginal role in the care of the elderly. (references)
		The Singapore Environment Council, a non-government organization, operates a voluntary Singapore Green Labeling Scheme. (references)
Children	Oman	Compliance is voluntary, yet widely observed. (references)
	Benin	The children work, but the arrangement is voluntary between the two families. (references)
	Vanuatu	Their protection and care is left to the traditional extended family and to voluntary NGO's. (references)
Civil Liberties	Turkey	Voluntary and assisted resettlements were ongoing. (references)
	Colombia	They were given aid, and the UNHCR reported that their return was voluntary. (references)
	Singapore	The right of voluntary repatriation is extended to holders of national passports. (references)
Economic History	Hong Kong	Registration is voluntary. (references)
	Ireland	The Irish system of industrial relations is a voluntary one. (references)
	Russia	FCSM is also preparing voluntary corporate governance standards. (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	Without this registration, a voluntary organization cannot receive funding from abroad. (references)
	Benin	Many citizens who went into voluntary exile prior to the establishment of democratic rule have returned. (references)
	Peru	A law went into effect in January 2000 making military service voluntary and prohibiting forced conscription. (references)
Indigenous People	Norway	Authorities charged three young persons with aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter for their role in the killing; all three were linked to a neo-nazi organization. (references)
Minorities	Yemen	Their numbers have diminished significantly--from several tens of thousands to a few hundred--due to voluntary emigration over the past 50 years. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	An interentity agreement negotiated under U.N. auspices allows the voluntary redeployment of officers across entity lines to redress ethnic imbalances. (references)
Political Economy	UNITED KINGDOM	Unofficial strikers can be legally dismissed, and voluntary work stoppage is considered a breach of contract. (references)
	NICARAGUA	However, in the past, the government has negotiated voluntary price restraints with domestic producers of important consumer goods. (references)
	Luxembourg	Luxembourg accepted the EU's June 2000 Feira Summit proposals for a gradual elimination of national legislation permitting bank secrecy, but only under strict conditions of voluntary unanimity. (references)
Political Rights	Ecuador	Voting is mandatory for literate citizens over 18 years of age and voluntary for illiterate citizens. (references)
	Brazil	It is voluntary for minors from 16 to 18 years of age, for the illiterate, and for those age 70 and over. (references)
	Poland	All citizens 18 years of age and older have the right to vote and to cast secret ballots, and voting is voluntary. (references)
Trade	Egypt	Quality control of exports is voluntary. (references)
	Brazil	In Brazil, many standards are voluntary. (references)
	Argentina	In Argentina, most standards are voluntary. (references)
Travel	New Zealand	The New Zealand health system consists of public, private and voluntary sectors that interact to provide and fund health care. (references)
Women	Trinidad and Tobago	A rape crisis center offers counseling for rape victims and perpetrators on a voluntary basis. (references)
	Malta	A special police unit and several voluntary organizations provide support to victims of domestic violence. (references)
Worker Rights	Austria	Association of national unions with the OGB is voluntary. (references)
	Congo	The maximum legal workweek (excluding voluntary overtime) is 48 hours. (references)
	Chile	As a result, enforcement is improving, and voluntary compliance is fairly good. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Voluntary

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Tom Ridge	Exactly. Their own iris scan, fingerprint scan, facial recognition, so that it might ease their pass through the gate and onto the airplane. Again, strictly talking to them on a voluntary capacity, but it does make some sense.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Voluntary

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	In addition to this voluntary provision for defense by individual citizens, it appears to me necessary to equip the frigates, and provide other vessels of inferior force, to take under convoy such merchant vessels as shall remain unarmed.
James Madison	1809-1817	Propose a restoration of this primitive State in which its Teachers depended on the voluntary rewards of their flocks, many of them predict its downfall.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Nations with food deficits must put more of their resources into voluntary family planning programs.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Obviously, voluntary conservation continues to be essential, but tougher programs are needed--and needed now.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	A sincere commitment to voluntary constraint provides a way, perhaps the only way, to fight inflation without Government interference.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Let's make sure that self-employed people and small businesses can buy insurance at more affordable rates through voluntary purchasing pools.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Voluntary

"Voluntary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Voluntary" is used about 3,890 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3,890	2,514

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Voluntary

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "voluntary".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Nadab	N/A	Biblical	Free and voluntary gift
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Voluntary

Expressions using "voluntary": free and voluntary desistance ♦ Maximal Voluntary Ventilation ♦ maximum voluntary ventilation ♦ Tanker Owner's Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution ♦ voluntary abortion ♦ voluntary affidavit ♦ voluntary agreement ♦ voluntary association ♦ voluntary chains ♦ voluntary conveyance ♦ voluntary energy ♦ voluntary escape ♦ voluntary exile ♦ Voluntary Health Agencies ♦ voluntary jurisdiction ♦ voluntary manslaughter ♦ voluntary muscle ♦ voluntary oath ♦ voluntary opposition ♦ voluntary resistance ♦ voluntary waste ♦ Voluntary Workers ♦ World Federation for Voluntary Surgical Contraception ♦ World Federation of Health Agencies for the Advancement of Voluntary Surgical Contraception. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "voluntary": voluntary-aided, voluntary-professional, voluntary-sector.
	Ending with "voluntary": semi-voluntary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Voluntary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
trumpet voluntary	95	repossesion voluntary	8
voluntary simplicity	89	boeing investment plan voluntary	8
voluntary	49	cambodia voluntary work	8
voluntary work	40	efficiency energy programme voluntary	7
voluntary repossession	29	adventist forum online voluntary	7
voluntary and reposession	20	voluntary employee benefit	7
voluntary euthanasia	15	implication voluntary	7
voluntary termination of parental right	14	departure voluntary	6
voluntary benefit	14	international service voluntary	6
africa african voluntary volunteer	12	voluntary organization	6
voluntary work overseas	12	voluntary purchasing group	6
voluntary amputation	12	sector training voluntary	6
voluntary manslaughter	11	quit voluntary	5
voluntary sector	9	group regulation rule voluntary	5
voluntary work uk	9	association hospital voluntary	5
clarke trumpet voluntary	9	business planning sector voluntary	5
america hospital voluntary	9	job voluntary	5
voluntary service overseas	9	voluntary separation incentive	5
purcell trumpet voluntary	9	consultancy sector voluntary	5
repo voluntary	9	association beneficiary employee voluntary	5
		voluntary work abroad	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Voluntary

Language		Translations for "voluntary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vullnetar (freewill, volunteer), vetëdashës (self willed, volunteer), pa pagesë, me dashje (by design, conscious, consciously, fain, knowingly, on purpose, prepense, purposefully, purposely, wittingly), i vullnetshëm (volitional, willing), fakultativ (elective, facultative, optional). (various references)

Arabic		‏كل ما يفعل طوعا, ‏متمتع بحرية الإختيار, ‏مخير, ‏مدعوم بمساعدات طوعية, ‏قطعة موسيقية عفوية, ‏حر (at large, disengaged, free, freeman, heat, independent, liberated, loose, open), ‏عامل بإرادته, ‏طوعي (willing), ‏المتطوع, ‏اختياري, ‏إرادي (willing). (various references)

Bulgarian		съзнателен (advised, conscious, deliberate, intentional, knowing, premeditated, scrupulous, sentient), соло орган, волеви (strong-willed, volitional, volitive), обмислен (advised, calculated, cold blooded, conscious, considered, deliberate, deliberative, measured, premeditated, studious, thought-out), безвъзмезден (gratuitous), преднамерен (aforethought, conscious, deliberate, intentional, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, studious, wilful, willful), доброволчески (volunteer), доброволец (volunteer), доброволен (freewill, spontaneous, unforced, unsolicited, volunteer). (various references)

Chinese		自願 , 義務 (duty, obligation, volunteer), 义务 (Duty, Obligation, Voluntaries). (various references)

Czech		volní (volitional), nepovinný (optional), neplacený (unpaid), dobrovolný (free, gratuitous, optional, unasked), úmyslný (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, prepense, purposeful, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references)

Danish		voluntarius, frivilligt. (various references)

Dutch		vrĳwillig (voluntarily), vrýwillig (voluntarily, willing), voluntarius, op vrijwillige basis, gewillig (obedient, willing). (various references)

Esperanto		volonta (willing), libervola. (various references)

Farsi		اختیاری (Arbitrary, Free), ارادی , داوطلبانه , به خواست . (various references)

Finnish		vapaaehtoinen, pakoton (free, unconstrained), pakote (free, unconstrained). (various references)

French		volontaire (volunteer). (various references)

German		freiwillig (freely, gratuitous, gratuitously, non contentious, non-obligatory, optional, unsolicited, unsolicitous, voluntarily). (various references)

Greek		προαιρετική, εκούσια (voluntarily), εκούσιοσ (willing), εθελοντικόσ, θεληματικόσ (volitional). (various references)

Hebrew		מרצון, �"ת� �"בותי, רצו� י (arbitrary). (various references)

Hungarian		szándékos (calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, malicious, premeditated, purposeful, purposive, wilful, willful). (various references)

Indonesian		sunat (supererogatory), sukarela. (various references)

Italian		volontario (freewill, unsolicitous, volunteer, willing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		随意 (optional). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ずいい (optional), ゆうし (ambition, an official, another child considered as one's own, brave man, brave warrior, financing, gallant figure, grieving, hero, historical, idle funds or capital, loan, nephew, recorded in history, sympathizer, traveller, volunteer, wanderer), じはつてき (spontaneous). (various references)

Korean		자발 (unsolicited). (various references)

Manx		toilloil (wilful, wilful of action), joinagh (intentional, remote, spontaneous, wilful, willing), arryltagh (ready, spontaneous, volunteer, willing). (various references)

Papiamen		boluntariamente. (various references)

Pig Latin		oluntaryvay

Polish		chętny. (various references)

Portuguese		voluntário (spontaneous, unconstrained, volunteer). (various references)

Romanian		voluntar (authoritative, free will, self willed, volunteer, wilful), intenţionat (advised, deliberate, deliberately, designedly, expressly, intentional, knowingly, minded, purposeful, purposely, studied, wilful, with intention), benevol (gratuitously, honorary, spontaneous, spontaneously). (various references)

Russian		добровольный (ex gratia, free, freewill, free-will, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, willing). (various references)

Scottish		toileach (desirous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		voljan (game, minded, ready, willing), svojevoljan (self willed, wayward), spontan (spontaneous, unbidden, unrehearsed), dobrovoljan (freewill, volunteer). (various references)

Spanish		voluntario (self-inflicted, unsolicitous, volunteer). (various references)

Swedish		godvillig (voluntarily). (various references)

Turkish		kasıtlı (aforethought, deliberate, designed, designedly, felonious, intended, intentional, meaning, prepense, purposely, studied, wilful, willful), isteyerek yapılan şey, isteyerek yapılan, istemli hareket, istemli (optional, unprompted), gönüllü (ready, volunteer, willing), fahri (complimentary, honorary, unsalaried), özgür iradeli. (various references)

Turkmen		meяletin. (various references)

Ukranian		навмисний (advised, aforethought, calculated, deliberate, designed, felonious, forethought, industrious, intended, intentional, malicious, prepense, purposeful, wilful, willful), довільний (arbitral, arbitrary, wanton), добровільний (free, freewill, gratuitous, spontaneous, unbidden, volunteer, willing). (various references)

Vietnamese		vui lòng cho không; cố ý, tự nguyện (free will, lief, willingly), tự ý (arbitrarily, free will, unbidden, unrequested). (various references)

Welsh		gwirfoddol (spontaneous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Voluntary

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	spontaneam, spontaneas, spontanee, spontanei, spontaneum, voluntaria, voluntariam, voluntarie, voluntarii, voluntario, voluntarium, voluntarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Voluntary

Language	Date	Source	Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	MhdeiV umaV katabrabeuetw qelwn en tapeinofrosunh kai qrhskeia twn aggelwn a mh ewraken embateuwn eikh fusioumenoV upo tou nooV thV sarkoV autou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Nemo vos seducat volens in humilitate et religione angelorum quae non vidit ambulans frustra inflatus sensu carnis suae
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	No man disseyue you, willynge to teche in mekenesse, and religioun of aungelis, tho thingis whiche he hath not seyn, walkinge veynli, bolnyd with wit of his fleisch,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Let no man make you shote at a wroge (marke) which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Voluntary

Language	Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 18
Cebuano	Ayaw tugoti nga adunay manikas kaninyo pinaagi sa iyang kinabobut-ong pagpulopahiubos ug pagsimbag mga manulonda, sa pagbarug niya diha sa iyang mga panan-awon, nga sa walay katarungan nagapasigarbo tungod sa iyang unodnon nga mga panghunahuna.
Croatian	Nitko neka vas ne podcjenjuje zato što on sam uživa u "poniznosti i štovanju anðela", zadubljuje se u svoja viðenja, bezrazložno se nadima tjelesnom pameæu svojom,
Danish	Lad ingen frarøve eder Sejrsprisen, idet han finder Behag i Ydmyghed og Dyrkelse af Englene, idet han indlader sig på, hvad han har set i Syner, forfængeligt opblæst af sit kødelige Sind,
Dutch	Dat dan niemand u overheerse naar zijn wil in nederigheid en dienst der engelen, intredende in hetgeen hij niet gezien heeft, tevergeefs opgeblazen zijnde door het verstand zijns vleses;
Finnish	Älköön teiltä riistäkö voittopalkintoanne kukaan, joka on mieltynyt nöyryyteen ja enkelien palvelemiseen ja pöyhkeilee näyistään ja on lihallisen mielensä turhaan paisuttama
French	Qu`aucun homme, sous une apparence d`humilité et par un culte des anges, ne vous ravisse � son gré le prix de la course, tandis qu`il s`abandonne � ses visions et qu`il est enflé d`un vain orgueil par ses pensées charnelles,
German	Laßt euch niemand das Ziel verrücken, der nach eigener Wahl einhergeht in Demut und Geistlichkeit der Engel, davon er nie etwas gesehen hat, und ist ohne Ursache aufgeblasen in seinem fleischlichen Sinn
Hungarian	Senki tõletek a pálmát el ne vegye, kedvét találván alázatoskodásban és az angyalok tisztelésében, a melyeket nem látott, olyakat tudakozván, ok nélkül felfuvalkodván az õ testének értelmével.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Janganlah kalian membiarkan diri dirugikan oleh orang yang pura-pura merendahkan diri dan yang menyembah malaikat-malaikat. Orang itu sombong dengan pikiran-pikirannya yang duniawi dan membangga-banggaka penglihatan-penglihatannya yang khusus,
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Jangan seorang pun dapat mengecewakan kamu daripada pahalamu, dengan peri merendahkan diri dan dengan menyembah segala malaekat sambil berkuat di atas penglihatannya, dengan sia-sia membesarkan dirinya menurut angan-angannya,
Italian	Nessuno v'impedisca di conseguire il premio, compiacendosi in pratiche di poco conto e nella venerazione degli angeli, seguendo le proprie pretese visioni, gonfio di vano orgoglio nella sua mente carnale,
Maori	Kei riro ta koutou taonga i te maminga a te tangata e mea ana ki te whakaiti i a ia, ki te karakia ki nga anahera, ka noho i roto i nga mea e kitea ana e ia, ka whakapehapeha kau noa, he mea na tona ngakau kikokiko;
Norwegian	La ingen frarøve eder kamp-prisen, om nogen prøver på det ved ydmykhet og engle-dyrkelse, idet han gir sig av med syner, blir opblåst uten grunn av sitt kjødelige sinn
Rumanian	Nimeni sq nu vq rqpeascq premiul alergqrii, fqckndu-wi voia lui knsuw printr`o smerenie wi knchinare la kngeri, amesteckndu-se kn lucruri pe cari nu le -a vqzut, umflat de o mkndrie dewartq, prin gkndurile firii lui pqmkntewti,
Russian	оЙЛФП �"Б ОЕ П�'ПМШЭБЕФ ЧБУ УБНПЧПМШОЩН УНЙТЕООПНХ�"ТЙЕН Й УМХЦЕОЙЕН бОЗЕМПЧ, ЧФПТЗБСУШ Ч ФП, ЮЕЗП ОЕ ЧЙ�"ЕМ, �'ЕЪТБУУХ�"ОП ОБ�"НЕЧБСУШ � МПФУЛЙН УЧПЙН ХНПН
Shuar	Tura shuar "Péejchach ajasam Yus áujtsuk aya Yusa suntari shiir awajsatniuiti" Túramkuinkia anturkairap. Nu shuar mesekranam Wáinkiamun áujmatenak ántar nankaamantu Enentáimtumainiawai. Aya aentsti Enentáimian chichainiawai.
Spanish	Nadie os prive de vuestro premio, fingiendo humildad y culto a los ángeles, haciendo alarde de lo que ha visto, vanamente hinchado por su mente carnal;
Swahili	Msikubali kuhukumiwa na mtu yeyote anayejitakia kuwa wa maana kwa sababu ya maono ya pekee na ambaye anasisitiza juu ya unyenyekevu wa uongo na ibada kwa malaika. Mtu wa namna hiyo amepumbazika kwa fikira danganifu za kidunia
Swedish	Låten icke segerlönen tagas ifrån eder av någon som har sin lust i "ödmjukhet" och ängladyrkan och gör sig stor med sina syner, någon som utan orsak är uppblåst genom sitt köttsliga sinne
Uma	Jadi', ane ria tauna to mposalai' -koi apa' uma nituku' tudui' -ra, neo' nipangalai' -ra. Ra'uli' tauna toera, ria inca-ra apa' ria-ra to mpohilo pangila. Ra'uli' uma-koi mpai' natarima Alata'ala ane uma-koi mpakadingki' nono-ni pai' mponyompa mala'eka. Neo' nipelele' tauna toera mposalai' -koi. Molangko nono-ra hante uma ria huraa-ra, apa' tudui' -ra toe mehuwu ngkai nono-ra moto to mpopekiri dunia' toi-wadi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Voluntary

Derivations
	Words beginning with "voluntary": voluntaryism, voluntaryisms, voluntaryist, voluntaryists. (additional references)
	Words ending with "voluntary": involuntary, nonvoluntary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Voluntary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: volantary, volentary, volontaire, voluntarly, voluptary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Voluntary"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "voluntary" (pronounced vÄ"lunterē)
3	-e r ē	contractionary, contrary, evidentiary, incendiary, intermediary, precautionary.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Voluntary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-n-o-r-t-u-v-y"
	-2 letters: ovulary.
	-3 letters: aroynt, auntly, layout, notary, outlay, outran, ovular, torula, uranyl, valour, vaulty, vaunty, volant, votary.
	-4 letters: atony, aunty, loran, loury, lovat, lunar, lyart, notal, ovary, rayon, royal, runty, talon, tolan, tolar, tonal, trona, truly, ulnar, ultra, unary, unlay, valor, vault, vaunt, volar, volta, yourn, yulan, yurta.
	-5 letters: alto, arty, arvo, aryl, aunt, auto.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-n-o-r-t-u-v-y"
	+2 letters: anovulatory, involuntary, voluntarily.
	+3 letters: evolutionary, nonvoluntary, voluntaryism, voluntaryist.
	+4 letters: adventurously, devolutionary, intravenously, involuntarily, revolutionary, voluntaryisms, voluntaryists.
	+5 letters: coevolutionary, evolutionarily.
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