voluntaire

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Middle French

Etymology

From late Old French voluntaire, borrowed from Latin voluntarius.

Adverb

voluntaire

willingly
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
  Se donna mancipe et serf voluntaire, soy et sa posterité
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- 1552, Homer, translated by Hugues Salel, Les Dix Premiers Livres de l'Iliade d’Homère:
  Ie t'ay nourry, non seulement Pourtant
  Que ie t'ay mois, mais tu m'estois portant
  Si grand Amour, qu’il estoit impossible
  Qu'on te rendist voluntaire et flexible,
  A rien qui fust, si de moy ne venoit.
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Adjective

voluntaire m or f (plural voluntaires)

voluntary; of one's own accord
- 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, L'Arcadie:
  Certes ie fuz en semblable et peult estre en plus douloureux estat, que tu n’es a present & ne fuz oncques, hors mis le voluntaire exil qui tant te moleste
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- 1538, Clément Marot, L’Adolescence Clémentine:
  Icy veoit on (tresillustre Princesse) du Roy la triumphante Armée: qui un Mercredy (comme sçavez) s'attendant avoir la bataille, par parolles persuadentes à le bien servir esleva le cueur de ses gens à si voluntaire force, que alors ilz eussent non seulement combatu, mais fouldroyé le reste du Monde pour ce jour: auquel fut veue la haultesse de cueur de maintz Chevaliers, qui par ardant desir voulurent pousser en la flotte des Ennemis
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- 1552, François Rabelais, Le Quart Livre:
  A moy rien ne attribuer, fors humble subiection & obeissance voluntaire à voz bons commandemens.
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Descendants

French: volontaire
→ English: voluntary (partly reformed based on Latin)
→ English: volunteer (partly reformed based on -eer)

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