SPONTANEOUS in THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS

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Definition

behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner

or:

happening naturally (without planning or external force)

In reaction against that, he may be persuaded to aim at something entirely spontaneous, inward, informal, and unregularised; and what this will actually mean to a beginner will be an effort to produce in himself a vaguely devotional mood in which real concentration of will and intelligence have no part.
Chapter 4 (17% in)

As a result, a woman who is quite far gone in the Enemy's service will make a nuisance of herself on a larger scale than any man except those whom Our Father has dominated completely; and, conversely, a man will live long in the Enemy's camp before he undertakes as much spontaneous work to please others as a quite ordinary woman may do every day.
Chapter 26 (24% in)

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