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Definition
behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
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happening naturally (without planning or external force)
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happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- The soldiers, swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long steps.Book Two — 1805 (10% in)
- And Nicholas heard her spontaneous, happy, ringing laughter.Book Seven — 1810-11 (58% in)
- Almost all day long the house resounded with their running feet, their cries, and their spontaneous laughter.Book Eleven — 1812 (28% in)
- His words and actions flowed from him as evenly, inevitably, and spontaneously as fragrance exhales from a flower.Book Twelve — 1812 (76% in)
- No command ever appears spontaneously, or itself covers a whole series of occurrences; but each command follows from another, and never refers to a whole series of events but always to one moment only of an event.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "spontaneous" in War and Peace.
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