All 8 Uses
spontaneous
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- There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.†
Chpt 1.spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- I have heard it said that the clergy—who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day—are addressed as women; that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men they do not hear, but only a mincing[41] and diluted speech.†
Chpt 1.
- The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous thoughts and recording them, is found to have recorded that which men in cities vast find true for them also.†
Chpt 1.
- They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when[153] the whole cry of voices is on the other side.†
Chpt 3.
- Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word?†
Chpt 3.
- The muscles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.†
Chpt 3.spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
- The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.†
Chpt 3. *spontaneity = behavior or action that happens naturally without planning or external force
- It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor, who take the lead in the world of this hour, and, though far from pure, far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, is as good as the whole society permits it to be.†
Chpt 6.spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
Definitions:
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(1)
(spontaneous) happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)