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Definition of Freewill
1. Adjective. Done of your own accord. "A freewill offering"
Definition of Freewill
1. a. Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
Definition of Freewill
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of free will) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freewill
1. voluntary [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freewill
Literary usage of Freewill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"But without disproving them, it would seem impossible to continue studying
historical events, merely as the arbitrary product of the freewill of individual ..."
2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"As it regards the power still remaining to freewill in a corrupt nature, and the
relation of the free will to the work of conversion or to justification in ..."
3. History of American Missions to the Heathen, from Their Commencement to the by Joseph Tracy, Solomon Peck, Enoch Mudge, William Cutter, Enoch Mack (1840)
"His appeal to freewill Baptists in America. His visit to the United Slates.
Labors here. Return to India, with Messrs, hoyes and Phillips. ..."
4. An Historical Presentation of Augustinism and Pelagianism from the Original by Gustav Friedrich Wiggers (1840)
"Theory of the Pelagians on freewill, and the opposite theory of Augustine.
With the doctrine of original sin, the doctrine of man's freewill stands in the ..."
5. Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine: From the by Johathan Greenleaf (1821)
"CHAPTER XXIX, freewill BAPTISTS. This name is used to distinguish a religious
denomination well known in Maine. They choose to. call themselves " The Church ..."
6. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"As for freewill, without expressly denying its possibility, Buckle maintains
that ' when we perform an action we perform it in consequence of some motive or ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"freewill BAPTISTS, or Free Baptists, a denomination of evangelical Christians
... In 1827 a correspondence was opened between the freewill Baptists of New ..."
8. Aristotelianism: The Ethics of Aristotle by Isaac Gregory Smith, William Grundy (1889)
"Some seven centuries later the civilised world in Europe discussed eagerly man's
freewill in relation to God's omnipotence. In more modern times man's ..."
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