of one's own accord
Example Sentences
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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.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
It is no easy task to tumble off a pedestal of one's own accord, even when one has not put oneself there.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
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 Döderlein, Ludwig
As if one was caught, trapped into the married state, pinned by the leg, instead of going into it of one's own accord and glorying in the act!'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles
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 Park, Robert Ezra
