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Definition of Spontaneously
1. Adverb. In a spontaneous manner. "This shift occurs spontaneously"
2. Adverb. Without advance preparation. "He spoke ad lib"
Definition of Spontaneously
1. Adverb. In a spontaneous manner; naturally; voluntarily. ¹
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Definition of Spontaneously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spontaneously
Literary usage of Spontaneously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"He who throws his goods into the sea to ' avoid drowning, doth it not only
spontaneously, reply. but even freely. He that wills the end, wills the means ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"He who throws his goods into the sea to ~" avoid drowning, doth it not only
spontaneously, but even freely. He that wills the end, wills the means conducing ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1825)
"But the orthodoxy of Rome spontaneously obeyed the impulse of her temporal policy:
and the ... spontaneously ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"A real poet should accumulate reflection till he has something to say, should
say it when the impulse comes to him spontaneously, and should afterwards ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1838)
"Abscess of the Liner bursting spontaneously into the Thorax, and terminating
successfully. The Calcutta Quarterly Journal (No. ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... we understand that pure, elaborated oi), which, by reason of its extreme
volatility, exhales spontaneously, in which the odour or smell consists. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We have to provide a ministry for the present and offered spontaneously and
voluntarily. Reproaches against those who may perchance show themselves less ..."