Voluntary vs Optionally - What's the difference?
voluntary | optionally |
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
As adverbs the difference between voluntary and optionally
is that voluntary is (obsolete) voluntarily while optionally is in an optional manner not mandatorily.As an adjective voluntary
is done, given, or acting of one's own free will.As a noun voluntary
is (music) a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.voluntary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church