All 4 Uses
spontaneous
in
Self-Reliance, by Emerson
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- 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.†
*spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word?†
- 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.†
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.†
spontaneity = behavior or action that happens 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)