of one's own accord
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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
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 Ivens, W. G. (Walter George)
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
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