voluntary
/ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/ adjectif C1En français : volontaire, bénévole
- Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
- Done by design or intention; intentional. · If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- Working or done without payment. · Wikimedia is a voluntary service.
- Endowed with the power of willing.
- Of or relating to voluntarism.
Dans la bibliothèque
Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to _him_ as of affection to myself.”
But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and, having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice.
It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance; for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
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