Legality vs Voluntary - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between legality and voluntary is that legality is lawfulness while voluntary is (music) a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument. As an adjective voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will. As an adverb voluntary is (obsolete) voluntarily.
legality English
Noun
Lawfulness.
Antonyms
* illegality
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voluntary English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
* Alexander Pope
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
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.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church
Synonyms
* discretionary
* optional
* willful
* volitional
Antonyms
* compulsory
* involuntary
* obligatory
Derived terms
* voluntarily
Related terms
* volition
* voluntarism
* voluntarist
* volunteer
* will
Adverb
( en adverb)
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
Noun
(voluntaries)
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
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